From Fox News:
Over 60 Portland 911 calls go unheeded overnight as police respond to riot
More than 60 emergency calls to police went unheeded overnight in Portland as officers were preoccupied with hundreds of demonstrators downtown and were pelted by rocks.
On the 80th consecutive night of protests, the Portland Police Bureau declared a riot around midnight Sunday after a crowd of hundreds had blocked traffic for three hours by the Penumbra Kelly Building in the 4700 block of East Burnside Street, trespassed on the closed property and engaged in “violent, tumultuous conduct.”
“At the time of this release over 60 calls for police service were holding around the city,” the Police Bureau said in a statement. “Some had been holding for the length of the events described here. Call types ranged from theft, vandalism, suspicious activity, hazards, hit and run, burglary, violation of restraining order, alarms, stolen cars, harassment and many others.”
That occurred during the stretch of just before midnight Saturday to 2:45 am Sunday morning.
Rioters fighting with the cops downtown overwhelmed the system so rioters who went into the suburbs were free to cause havoc.
Imagine being on the phone with 9-1-1 on hold for three hours in your house or apartment in the wee hours of the morning, as chaos, looting, and violence are going on all around you.
At that moment you are your first, last, and only line of defense. If you are not prepared you are utterly at the mercy of the mob.
At this point, you need to be sure that you have enough guns, fire extinguishers, and ammo, and know how to use them.
When the mob starts a ruckus there won’t be anyone to answer your calls for help.
You know how you are guaranteed to get a police response?
Tell the dispatcher that you are going to defend yourself. They will immediately send police. Not to defend you and yours, but to arrest your butt for threatening the peace.
Gotta get the 911 operator on the phone first.
Reminds me of an old joke. Seems this good ‘ol boy called, asking police to investigate prowlers poking around his yard/she’d. He reported figures moving around in his garage “Sorry, no officers are available. We’ll send someone as soon as we can”.
” Oh, ok.” And he hung up.
Waited a coupla minutes, called back.
“About those prowlers? Don’t worry about sending any officers. I just shot ’em, whenever your officers get around to it, they’ll still be laying, dead, in my yard!”
And hung up.
Shortly, heard the first siren.
Soon, patrol officers, deputies, DNR officers, Fire Department engine company, medics, State Police, chopper overhead, the works.
One sergeant strolled over, and accosted him. ” I thought you said you’d shot your prowlers?”
The good ol’ boy looked at the officer, and replied, “I thought you didn’t have anybody to send?”
It’s a good story; but the caller would then probably be charged with making a false call to 911.
I doubt I’d even call 911. Where I live, they shut those guys down months ago. But if I were in Portland, it would be open season.
Nice loud report. Dude with the bat goes down. Maybe a follow up a few minutes later, just as the panic grows.
Wouldn’t take long before the idea that rioting isn’t healthy takes hold.
This isn’t one of those “one-on-one I felt my life was in peril”. Your life, as well as your family’s is under threat with a riotous mob anywhere near when police are overwhelmed, or told to stand down.
What I Saw at the Coup short story by Matt Bracken if you can find it. Exactly that type of thing.
When the system is rigged against the law abiding, the law abiding start taking out individuals responsible through targeted assassinations. When the guy with the megaphone suddenly drops with a large hole in his chest, I bet the mob suddenly starts finding something else to do. When it happens in two/three cities, all the mobs find something else to do.
Somebody was saying they couldn’t find the short story:
https://gunfreezone.net/matthew-brackens-what-i-saw-at-the-coup/
I found this weird blog where they talk about such things. Seems the owner of the blog grabbed a copy and posted it while the grabbing was good.
*GRIN*
If you use a Kindle or Kindle app, Amazon sometimes has Matt Bracken’s anthology — which includes “What I Saw at the Coup” — available for $0.00.
Even if it’s not free, it’s not expensive, either.
Indeed. I have the anthology, read it a half dozen times. There are a lot of good pieces in it; “What I saw at the coup” is just one of them. For example, “Raoul X” is also an excellent piece of short fiction. And there is a pile of non-fiction in there as well.
For a much longer treatment there is his “Enemies” trilogy, also highly recommended.
The mob’s effect on emergency services is fundamentally no different than a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on a computer server/network. Basically, overload a system — using a network of bots, if necessary — with so much junk traffic that legitimate users can’t access it.
When it’s a server/network, it’s usually an inconvenience. A website is inaccessible, or your credit card POS transaction gets delayed a few minutes. Annoying and frustrating, but not serious.
But when society’s emergency services are attacked, that’s not an inconvenience; that’s life-and-death. Doubly so when the “solution” from the powers-that-be is to defund those services, reducing their capacity to respond to requests.
The BLM/Antifa mob is functioning as a bot-net performing a DDoS attack on 9-1-1 services. The individual members may or may not realize that, but don’t for one second think that their handlers and financiers are unaware; hell, they’re probably counting on it. For what purpose, I’m not sure, but it can’t be anything good.