The question isn’t whether City Councilor Louie Sanchez calls 911 too much. It’s whether police are responding in time to prevent serious crimes and save lives. But you wouldn’t know that based on the recent dismissive tone of the Albuquerque Police Department.
Sanchez, who served 25 years with APD before taking office in January, has been pressing city officials about why officers weren’t dispatched after a recent 911 call in which Sanchez reported a man at a gas station hitting another man with the butt of a gun and pointing the gun.
Rather than immediately dispatching officers, the 911 operator said she was setting up a “be on the look out.” Meanwhile, the report of a man pointing and striking another man with a gun got no response for about 50 minutes… READ MORE
