precinct anti-crime unit which is a plainclothes unit that typically focuses on guns and armed robbery. so in a situation like this at 10:30, a robbery in progress would have come over the radio, and normally the anti-crime unit is the response the first responder unit type of thing. be assigned patrol car, the marked patrol car would have gotten this with typically anti-crime which is a roving patrol immediately hears this. these are what you call priority calls. alerts will come over the radio and they ll race to the scene. they re a rolling unit. and they would have most likely encountered these suspects. and it s not surprising to me that gunfire was exchanged. this was a rough neighborhood in the 90s, and it still is today. and so these robberies were very common when i worked there. there were many shootings, police-involved shootings. bad guy on victim. so this i don t want to sound
year, priority calls have a 13.17 response time. she made this a priority call and it came within the time. and that is the amount of time that denver has within the time that arthel articulated but that doesn t mean it is right or escape legal liability for coming in 14 minutes when you have a gun and three little kids in the house. there are some cases that can go forward but it has to be more than a judgment mistake, it has to be willful or wanton misconduct to pursue a case for someone who works for the government. i think the better case is against the person who provide the the marijuana candy. let bring in the drug angle. this guy had karma candy, orange ginger and pre-98 cush preroll, which is a joint. do you think the store could bear any responsibility that sold this to him?
and joining us is the inspector joe car daro. in 2011, 535 murders in chicago in 2012, the wrong trajectory. it would seem you d want to be answering the phone calls. they re shifting high priority calls and not handling or dispatching police officers to low priority calls and the theory is that the resources you save you can dedicate to fighting crime and patrolling hot spots. that s not a new strategy. that s been in use. tucker: in chicago they re saying they re not sending police officers for car theft. that s had a major crime, isn t it? it is, but i think they qualify if the suspect is not at the scene. there s no emergency. certainly the police are going to respond and take a report and probably broadcast your
good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. you re looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. it s an animated satellite of irene as it s churning up the eastern seaboard like a buzz saw. at last check, 5 million people are still without power. throughout the morning, the death toll has been jumping as well. 38 people are now confirmed dead in 11 states and it could get even higher. three navy ships off the coast of new york to help with search and rescue missions and reps from the obama administration are going to fan out across three of the hardest hit states, virginia, north carolina, and vermont. let s go ahead and start there where floodwaters have dest