Avoidance
Egad: A Denver man who called 911 to report a threatening road-rage encounter reluctantly followed a 911 dispatcher’s order to return to the scene of the crime, where he was fatally shot while waiting for police.
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April 5th, 2012 at 11:07 am
Unreal
April 5th, 2012 at 11:16 am
It’s okay. They are “deeply saddened” and the dispatcher gets a paid vacation because he “didn’t follow procedures.”
What more do you want? Accountability?
April 5th, 2012 at 11:28 am
One more lesson in “believe the cops, get screwed.”
April 5th, 2012 at 11:42 am
I was involved in a road rage situation once — I guess I hadn’t gone through the stop sign fast enough, since the guy behind me tried to push me through the sign with his car. There was a policeman standing next to us, and he refused to have anything to do with it.
So I went through the stop sign, across the street, and proceeded on my way. The rager roared through mhy intersection, trying to t-bone me, but missed. Same thing happened a couple blocks later. Then I managed to lose him.
Police will try their damndest to be useless.
April 5th, 2012 at 11:48 am
Well, thank god he followed the dispatcher’s advice, or else he would have Sharpton and the New Black Panthers all over him.
April 5th, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Advice I got from a state trooper after dispatch told me to stay at the end of an icy bridge when somebody rear-ended me (and I’m watching other cars spin out): Never listen to dispatch.
April 5th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
denver dispatch is just trying to keep up with the gross incompetence of the DPD. It’s not an easy task.
April 5th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
911 dispatchers are required to follow a script, regardless of casualties.
Do not obey instructions from a 911 operator if they will jeopardize your life.
BTW, the one time I was chased by a road rager ( waving a bat at me from inside his truck! ), I just told the dispatcher I was going to drive to the local PD parking lot … and did so. The road rager actually followed me into their lot. Hilarity ensued … I just sat their with my hands on the steering wheel, and watch the fun. It beat the hell out of having to shoot that retard.
April 5th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Is the person on the phone even a dispatcher or are they just scribbling down info (in crayon no doubt) and tossing it vaguely in the direction of a dispatcher?
Regardless…
If a voice on a phone wants me to follow it’s orders I’ve got a rope it can go piss up.
BGM
April 5th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Relying on the case of Media v. Zimmerman we all know that is mandatory to do exactly as the 911 dispatcher tells us.
April 5th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Not to worry! I’m sure that if the Dispatcher gets fired, he/she can be a TSA Supervisor the following day. And we’ll all be safer for it, too!
April 5th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
Kristopher, 911 dispatchers are most definitely not required to follow a script no matter what.
With that said, I am in no way going to defend the actions of that dispatcher, but don’t make a blatantly incorrect statement and present it as fact.
Regarding your second sentence, about not following dispatcher guidance if it jeopardizes one’s safety, in that you are absolutely correct.
BGMiller, while you are correct in that there is a difference between call takers and dispatchers, the training for both regarding receiving information from the public and reacting accordingly is identical. So whichever level of communications individual was involved, the result was still a fail.