On Monday, April 14, 44-year-old Kristine Kirk called Denver Police and pleaded for help. Thirteen minutes later they still hadn't arrived.
When they did finally respond, Mrs. Kirk was dead, shot in the head by her husband as 911 dispatchers listened helplessly.
When seconds count, you simply cannot rely on the police.
According to NBC, "Denver police are reviewing...the incident and investigating what took so long."
This will provide great comfort to Mrs. Kirk's three children.
Hoping to deflect attention away from their own incompetence, Denver PD is "investigating the possibility that Richard Kirk...took marijuana prior to the shooting."
Yeah, that's the problem — the guy was "taking" pot.
In the course of Mrs. Kirk's thirteen minute 911 call, she said her husband was "hallucinating". People don't hallucinate when they "take" pot; anyone who knows anything about marijuana knows that. Mr. Kirk was likely a mentally disturbed individual.
Sadly, his wife chose to depend on bureaucrats for her safety — and like so many others who have made that choice, she paid the ultimate price.
No doubt Denver's finest were busy elsewhere, helping a little old lady cross the street, or maybe catching a criminal in the act?
Unlikely. Due to "budget constraints", DPD has been unable to hire any new officers since 2008 and therefore "response times have gotten longer", reports NBC, carrying water for the police department.
Don't you see? The real problem here isn't police ineptitude. No, no, no — it's those selfish taxpayers' fault, for not ponying up. What they're already forking out obviously isn't enough — because for politicians and bureaucrats there's never enough. Like a line from the old CCR song, "When you ask them, 'How much should we give', they only answer 'More, more, more'".
We'll call it McPherson's Rule: the desire for other people's money is magically transformed from vice to virtue when the State is collecting.
One thing's for certain: the cops weren't skiving off. Professional, highly-trained officers of the law simply don't behave that way.
To make matters worse, Mrs. Kirk's children have no recourse.
While they will grow up one day and be compelled, under threat of fine or imprisonment, to pay taxes to provide jobs for police officers — who are allegedly there to protect them — those officers actually operate under no legal obligation to protect anyone at all.
Yet these "public servants" are comfortable suing people for not adequately protecting them.
How convenient.
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