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RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:27 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:27 am Reading the article, it sounds like the dispatcher was having to deal with a system that has some inherent organizational limitations, and that system's limitations being overwhelmed by other events (the truck accident on the highway). It mentions that dispatchers weren’t even able break through to the officers on the street and inform them of the ongoing attack because the volume of radio traffic surrounding the accident made it impossible get through. That’s not really dispatch's fault, is it? I don’t even know if it’s the officers' fault ... unless this is a radio discipline training issue.

Bad deal all around, and a powerful argument FOR having a firearm in the home.

I don't know what radio equipment they have in this case, but in my AO, an outbound transmission from Dispatch (on the priority/dispatch channel) overrides ALL incoming transmissions from the field. And I don't think our gear is terribly new. Also, protocol dictates that if there's an incident in progress, the channel being used for that incident gets "locked" to traffic from/to that incident and other traffic moves to a pre-determined secondary channel.

FWIW.

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:37 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:27 am
Bad deal all around, and a powerful argument FOR having a firearm in the home.

Since SCOTUS has made it clear the police have no duty to protect you from criminals, it is your own responsibility to do so. People need to wake up and understand what this country will be like when only criminals and government agents with no duty to protect you have guns.