Dateline: Washington, D.C.

It’s another sad day in the District of Columbia with the arrest of Officer/Pastor Darrell Best for sex crimes. Looks like the recent cloud that fell of the Fire department is now hovering over MPD.

It really appears that our public services agencies in general are overrun with officials who are not in keeping with the laws they are sworn to obey and uphold.

The Concerned Citizen feels bad for the honest, hard working men and women of the Fire & Police service who risk their lives on a daily basis to ensure the safety of the citizens and visitors of our nation’s Capital. The officials in charge of these two departments need to find a way to regain the trust and respect of the city residents they serve.  What’s your feeling on this DC?

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According to a Paul Wagner, FOX 5 news, the DC 911 (OUC) system failed again, now questions are being raised about the time it took to get help to a toddler who stopped breathing after choking on some grapes while the closest Fire and EMS paramedic was just three blocks away. That toddler is now in intensive care and fighting for his life. Mayor Bowser, the ball is in your court and concerned citizens want to know when do you think that enough is enough?

We feel that the 911/OUC director needs to be removed and replaced by the police and fire Chiefs respectively, and order needs to be restored to that agency immediately.

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Eight years ago I was in DC’s Office of Unified Communications (OUC or 911 center) as Chief Dennis Rubin was named by Mayor Adrian Fenty as the city’s new fire chief. I told Chief Rubin some of his biggest problems as chief will be because of what happens in this building and that he will have little or no ability to fix those problems. (The preceding is an excerpt from a new article by Dave Statter, read the entire report at… statter911.com)

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Two D.C. firefighters were arrested within a three-day span, just another hit to the already beleaguered department. Adding insult to injury, residents of a southeast neighborhood say that a critically injured stabbing victim was left bleeding for more than 40 minutes while waiting for an ambulance. This is just the latest in a string of slow and inaccurate responses involving D.C. Fire and EMS. However, the Concerned Citizen believes that the Fire Department may not be entirely at fault…  read our entire report & comments

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