Quote Originally Posted by DenverLEO View Post
Meh, we come as soon as we can. We're dangerously understaffed, and response times have gone through the roof. Property crimes can take hours for a response. Violent crimes take priority, but even those aren't guaranteed an immediate response. Shootings and stabbings in-progress will get the quickest response, as well as domestic violence. Beyond that, it's a crap shoot. Citizens would go apeshit if they knew just how massive the call load is, how few cops there are to respond to them, and how retardedly inefficient and ineffective our policies/procedures make us. We're doing as much as we can given our limitations.

Probably our union's fault...
Lets not forget how many people dial 911, for non-life threatening calls. If those were eliminated you would see a faster response time. Any call could be your last, especially when responding to a DV..