07 September 2010

Down = Up

Report: 911 Response Times Are Down

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were slower to respond to 911 calls in August than they were in the same month last year...

Last year, the average response time for 911 calls was 4.9 minutes. The month after budget cuts began, the average climbed to 5.5 minutes and last month rose to almost 6 minutes....

(CBS News headline/story emailed to me by an anonymous TYWKIWDBI reader - to whom, a hat tip.)

1 comment:

  1. Can I recommend the following article?: http://www.economist.com/node/16636027?story_id=16636027 "Rough justice in America"

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