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It took 51 calls to 911 and 26 minutes for the police to arrive at a brawl in Durkin Park in July, and now that the city has released tapes of those calls, things sound even worse. Calls started coming in before anyone got hurt. "They look like they're ready to get down — they've got bats and clubs and everything" is bad enough, but the urgency escalates until one caller is pleading, "He's not awake. He's lying on the ground. His eyes are closed. And there's blood coming out of his ears." Two 911 dispatchers were suspended after not, you know, dispatching anyone to the scene.
The tapes were released as part of a lawsuit against the city — one of many pending suits related to the case.
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So how again is Chicago "the city that works?"
I don't think that contributers should be allowed to comment on posts. It is a conflict of interest.
Much less bad but i called 311 to tell them i lost my wallet and they told me to get lost.
Well, just goes to show - you can build a jillion-dollar, state-of-the-art call center, and it's still going to fail if you staff it with the kind of employees that the City of Chicago seems to hire in droves.
I am unsurprised to learn from your July 17 post on this that two members of our outstanding police force apparently just blew the call off. Doubtless they had to go administer an emergency beating in a bar somewhere.
Tankboy, Chicago is the city that works - the catch is that, for it to work, you have to be the Mayor's nephew, brother, in-law, friend, or campaign contributor. The rest of us are here to pay taxes, get our cars ticketed, get shaken down every time we want a permit, and get beaten by the police on off duty.
Don't get me wrong - the city (small "c") is and always will be the greatest place in the world: so great, in fact, that I want to live here despite the incompetent, semi-literate thug that runs the place.
Chicago doesn't work unless you are making money off the taxpayers. Then, it works just fine.
IF that is in fact the case, it is sad that the PO-leese will get the heat for the response time.