Why ‘Just Call the Police’ Is Terrible Advice<\/a><\/p>\nThere’s an old saying in the gun world: When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.<\/p>\n
It’s true.<\/p>\n
Many, if not most police officers want to protect the public. They’d love to swoop in and keep everyone safe and sound from the predators that walk among us. They simply can’t. It’s just not feasible.<\/p>\n
Yet many people believe that the answer to someone breaking into your home is to just call the police.\u00a0Just<\/em>\u00a0call the police.<\/p>\nI can’t really accept that because I understand how things work in the best-case scenario. You dial 9-1-1 and you get connected with a dispatcher. You tell them everything, then they relay it to the appropriate officer. That officer then has to redirect to your location. Unless he’s just a block away–that’s rare, but it may happen on any given call–it’s going to be a little bit of time before he can get there.<\/p>\n
Horrible things could happen in that time.<\/p>\n
But a post on X, formerly Twitter, illustrated yet another potential problem. What if you call 9-1-1 and you’re put on hold for almost an hour?<\/p>\n
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