14 minutes is a long time when bad things are happening. It's taking longer for Denver Police to respond to 911 calls | 9news.com
Add Denver to the list of cities where there are not enough police officers. Did we really expect any other outcome?
Since 2018, response times for the highest priority calls, like those for shootings, have increased nearly 3 minutes and is now about 14 1/2 minutes.
Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen said he's deeply concerned by the increase in response times, which he described as a supply-and-demand problem: Too much demand for police services and too few cops on the street.
But it was just recently that cities across the country decided that it was a good idea to defund the police, and have fewer officers. And I just recently saw yet another video about how people should not call police. So how can there be a shortage? <sarcasm/> And about the same time a bunch of people decided that they don't want to be police. Between the lack of recruits and the increase rush for the exits of retirement, and resignation, well...
Strangely the article doesn't talk about defunding the police, or why the department is about 15% short of its authorized headcount.
I can't even pretend to be shocked that there is a shortage of officers.
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