{"id":26029,"date":"2012-09-24T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26029"},"modified":"2012-09-24T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T14:06:22","slug":"traumatised-family-upset-with-police-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/traumatised-family-upset-with-police-failures","title":{"rendered":"Traumatised Family Upset With Police Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18088\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"armed-robbery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A mother and her two daughters, aged nine and four, along with a family friend also aged nine, arrived home after the school run around 3:45pm on Friday when they were confronted by a man wielding a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The family is angry that it took numerous calls to get through to the emergency number 919 and almost an hour for police to finally respond.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, who was not wearing a mask or any other disguise, ordered the mother back into the house, where he forced the family to lie face down on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as he left, the mother locked herself and the children in the bedroom and called 919 and her husband, but could only reach the latter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife called 919 several times and couldn\u2019t get through. I called 919 and couldn\u2019t get anyone. About five to six people were calling on our behalf and had no luck. When we finally got through to 919 about 10 minutes later, the person on the other end said he didn\u2019t know where Blair Estates was so he didn\u2019t know if he could send a police car there. Which is just ridiculous,\u201d said the father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traumatised family, having just survived an armed home invasion, is upset that calls to 919 went unanswered and police took almost an hour to respond, proffering ridiculous excuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,38,156],"class_list":["post-26029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}