Report; Almost 225,000 high priority 911 calls have gone unanswered, or answered only after hours’ wait, in Chicago so far this year. Defund police? No cash bail? The voters planted the seeds. Now they’re choking on the bitter fruit.
• When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
• Calling the police takes only seconds, waiting for them to arrive can take the rest of your life.
• A gun in the hand is worth more than the entire police department on the phone.
• One of the last things I’d ever want to do is shoot someone in my own home. But the very last thing I’d ever want to do is go through life wishing I had.
• As George Orwell said, the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. This includes the war on crime.
