{"id":84087,"date":"2022-08-02T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84087"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:58:15","slug":"84087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84087","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans PD response time is why you need a gun<\/a><\/p>\n

Major cities tend to favor gun control. People figure they don\u2019t need a gun because they can just call the police. In many cases, that works. After all, larger police departments tend to have the kind of manpower were help can be just a few minutes away.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t help if seconds count, but in New Orleans, it seems\u00a0even if they don\u2019t, you\u2019re still screwed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is one of the most startling crime stats to emerge in recent months: It takes\u00a0New Orleans\u00a0police an average of 2\u00bd hours to respond to a 9-1-1 call, according to a new analysis presented to the\u00a0City Council\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That figure, calculated by the data firm AH Datalytics and presented to the council\u2019s criminal justice committee, was determined after looking at response times for all calls \u2014 including low-priority incidents, like fender-benders or stolen cars where residents are in little danger.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0New Orleans Police Department\u00a0immediately took issue with how data analyst\u00a0Jeff Asher\u00a0crunched the numbers, asserting that residents should focus instead on the department\u2019s response times for emergencies, which police get to largely within minutes.<\/p>\n

Low-priority calls are often placed at the end of long backlogs, driving up the overall average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is that what can start as a low-priority call can become a high-priority call pretty quickly. And, of course, if you\u2019ve already been marked down as low-priority, no one is coming faster unless you can make yet another call to 9-1-1.<\/p>\n

At least some on the city council agree.<\/p>\n

City Council\u00a0members said the situation is a crisis that demands immediate action from\u00a0City Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just done with the talk,\u201d said Council President\u00a0Helena Moreno. \u201cWe just have to be really honest and say that potentially, people\u2019s lives could be at stake.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem is that the New Orleans Police Department is having a manpower problem. They simply don\u2019t have enough officers on the job to put them on the streets.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t help that funding for law enforcement was cut in 2021\u00a0to the tune of $15 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the police union president\u00a0cited progressive politicians<\/a>\u00a0as the reason still more officers are leaving the city, some for lower-paying positions. After all, why work to make arrests when the bad guy is going to just end up back on the streets in no time flat?<\/p>\n

All of this brings me to point to this as why gun rights matter.<\/p>\n

We cannot trust the police to save us. Even if Uvalde hadn\u2019t happened, this would be a big warning sign that maybe, just maybe, the police won\u2019t instantly respond to your 9-1-1 call, the same call you\u2019re counting on to keep you safe from that bump in the dark.<\/p>\n

But if you have a gun, you have the means to protect yourself. It doesn\u2019t matter if it takes the police two and a half hours to finally get to your door because you\u2019ll still be alive to open it for them.<\/p>\n

Remember that even in the best of cities, you can only count on the police to get there in time to draw a chalk outline around the body. It\u2019s your gun rights that give you the ability to make sure the body in question isn\u2019t yours. It\u2019s not a difficult decision to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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