Domestic Violence - Important Information For Police and Victims

The FOP should educate the public by making an open records request on the average time it takes between the call being placed and the officer arriving at the scene. They should request the averages from December of 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. They should request specifics and not allow the department to just give up the 'dispatch to arrival' times. If the time doesn't increase dramatically betwen 2002 and 2003, then even more dramatically between 2003 and 2004, I would be shocked. I know of too many instances where runs have been held that should otherwise have been dispatched immediately. After getting the results, the times should be published here and a press release should follow.

I challenge anyone in the media to find more than 2 employees of LMPD (outside of HQ-1st floor) that believe that we have competent leaders. The command staff can be likened to a bumbling husband trying to put together a complex toy on Christmas Eve while ignoring the instructions.

The chief's office routinely makes dramatic changes with no infrastructural support. It is even rumored that SPI is washing their hands of this group.

I joined up to follow my idealist instincts and to help the little guy or girl. I have too many years on to just up and quit. I, like my fellow officers can only sit and stare as these overgrown children lay ruin to what were once two pretty decent organizations. Their damage will take years to fix, if it isn't already permanent. The murder rate last year is just a symptom. A lot of lesser crimes go unreported. Beats are now equal in size to half of an old city district. CIS is required to carry two radios and neither works well with the other, despite a 'bridged' channel that has such a delay that those on the other side of the bridge can't make out who might be calling for help. Metro Safe will be ready in the summer of 2005, no the spring of 2006. No, latest estimates point to the end of 2006, unless something else catches Abramson's eye and it's delayed further.

Please C-J editorial staff, just once show some integrity and ask Abramson a followup question. Check the facts he gives you. Look deeper. Just once, put aside your apparent fear of what you may find.

I will agree 100% with the response article. Officers in this city have a average response time of less than 8 to 10 minutes AFTER the call is dispatched unless there is some unforseen problem going on. This dept is in turmoil with the administration running it on potocol for runs. It's not the dispatchers fault but the way it been set up. Let them do their jobs and we will get a lot more done. Everyone lloks for a scapegoat when something is wrong, so let's blame it on the police. Yes CJ I beg you to did a little deeper into some of the issues that are going on out there with the LMPD or are you afraid you might have to print something negative about this Chief and Mayor. Remember things are done the way you are told to do it and the big BOSS makes the rules that are passed down. Here are a few you can look into:

1 Why are officers making high risk code 3 runs in cars with over 150,000 miles on them when 80 new ones are parked behind a district for the last 2 months.

2. Why were 7 salt trucks sitting in the lot of the garage on Newburg road broke down during the last snow and not being repaired. Check the work orders don't as a administrator downtown.

3 Check the snow removal plan for the city and ask why certain elected officials streets were salted and cleaned while the main streets were impassable.

4. Why the police dept has been merged for 2 years and officers still can't communicate with each other but yet we can take money and restripe cars to get new METRO markings this could have been a phase in.

I could go on and on but won't. So again media do some digging into the critical issues and get some answers please.

Well written comment.

The Courier Journal will never, (and I mean NEVER) challenge Ambramson. He has been allowed to operate unchecked in all of his bonehead decisions. Whether it's a lawsuit that can't be won or allowing a police chief to remain despite being a miserable failure. The CJ will ignore the reality most of us see. A large portion of the voting public only sees the Abramson the CJ portrays and that is sad. The man is a menace and not the honorable saint-like figure local news outlets would have you believe.

The general public should look a a little deeper than what has been printed and then use their intelligance to figure it out.