First of all,
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/10/91...uit/index.html
Quote:
At a news conference announcing the filing of the suit, Fieger said Robert Turner's case is not the only one.
He played another 911 tape from January 12, 2005, in which a woman who had been shot in the head by her husband called 911.
On the tape, the operator can be heard asking the woman if she has a mental problem and then asking that the husband who shot the woman be put on the phone. Rescuers did not come until a third call was placed by the woman's son, who lives out of state.
The woman in that case, said Fieger, lived but is paralyzed. He said the second case "indicates to the city that they have a problem that needs to be addressed."
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Secondly, The_Jazz, regardless of the training involved, emergency calls should ALWAYS be taken seriously. I see what you're saying, but I find it a blatent way to prevent people from taking responsibility for poor decision that harm others. Hye, if your throat is cut, I guess you'll just go sit in the La-Z-Boy and wait to die, huh The_Jazz? Must be great to have such clarity of thought.
Frankly, your opinion makes me ill... it's not you personally... MANY Americans feel this way these days. I think it's crap. First of all, dispatchers are not highly trained, high-paid professionals, they're often local government folk (especially in major cities) and are ONLY operators and dispatchers, not psychologists, not doctors, not police officers. If they HAD good training, they'd probably have a job that paid better. Training usually = $$$. At any rate, they are NOT paid to think, they are paid to answer phones and dispatch emergency services. Again, they are NOT paid to think... they aren't philosophers or teachers. They aren't fucking sages or visionaries, they're goddamned operators.