Ron Bateman
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True.
And Mr. Morris does have a good point.
It is a wellness check, which we get hundreds of a day and 99.9% of them turn out to be nothing whatsoever.
So this is, and the empathy or the lack of empathy in her voice is a,
I know it's troubling to the average person, but you got to understand what they deal with every single day.
And getting a wellness check call is much less dramatic than the other calls that they deal with nonstop.
You know, someone being beaten, someone, you know, just got, you know, in a terrible car accident, they're pinned in a car.
a wellness check that's put across like that the way the caller did is very matter of fact.
So I understand why you could get upset because you know the outcome.
However, the outcome is not known by the dispatcher or the call taker at that point.
It is in queue.
My question would be, how long did it take for the response?
If the response was two or three minutes, then that's normal in a non-emergency call.
So Mr. Morris is pretty much right on the mark.
It's really tragic and
I really feel sorry for the kids that they're going to have to deal with this the rest of their life.
At least the four-year-old probably will and the coworkers.
And yeah, the whole thing is sad.
And I got to talk about dispatchers.
The turnover rate for dispatchers in police departments is incredibly high because of the...