A solution to slow police response times | LETTER

With the current left-wing pattern for defunding the police, the typical response time for 911 calls in main Democratic-controlled cities reminiscent of New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, is 8 minutes, 48 seconds. That is an eternity when you’re the sufferer of a violent crime. As one outstanding police chief stated, “Until you may shield your self, the understaffed police will doubtless arrive in time to fill out the paperwork.”

By the identical measure, the typical Uber/Lyft reserving to arrival time is 2 minutes, 26 seconds. Now that the U.S. Supreme Courtroom has confirmed the legality of carrying a hid weapon, I suggest that the Biden administration divert the thousands and thousands of taxpayer {dollars} it’s going to doubtless spend combating that call right into a program arming and coaching Uber/Lyft drivers to guard callers in peril. So when you’re fairly certain you may’t look ahead to the police and your individual handgun just isn’t available, you may name Uber. Tipping, in fact, could be optionally available.