East & West Radio Spilt

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Both sides should step tf back and realize - for the cops - we aren't going back to having our own dispatch so no matter how sh*tty you think the dispatchers are, they're a cop's lifeline. And for the dispatchers, first off, tone alerts and 10-3ing the air - we're conditioned to listen for a tone alert or 10-3s when the 💩 is hitting the fan. Blasting a tone when you have to switch dispatchers every ten or fifteen minutes while you get up to run for a break without telling the incoming dispatchers where everyone is will yes, piss us off. Or sending us to calls and expecting us not to complain or be pissed off about the incomplete, incorrect or limited info we get from you, that you got from the call takers, which they got from the callers will yes, also piss us off. By the time we get info, if we even get any info, the original message is watered down by a at least three people prior to us and it is pisses us tf off, 'cause bad or no info turns a call we're on into something where we could be in deep 💩 and not go home at the end of the shift.

You might want to take some time to ask a fellow dispatcher how it felt to be on the radio handling a call - THE call - that turned out to be a cop's last call ever 'cause that cop got seriously injured or died. It sucks for both sides to live with that feeling.

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Still terrible

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Both sides should step tf back and realize - for the cops - we aren't going back to having our own dispatch so no matter how sh*tty you think the dispatchers are, they're a cop's lifeline. And for the dispatchers, first off, tone alerts and 10-3ing the air - we're conditioned to listen for a tone alert or 10-3s when the 💩 is hitting the fan. Blasting a tone when you have to switch dispatchers every ten or fifteen minutes while you get up to run for a break without telling the incoming dispatchers where everyone is will yes, piss us off. Or sending us to calls and expecting us not to complain or be pissed off about the incomplete, incorrect or limited info we get from you, that you got from the call takers, which they got from the callers will yes, also piss us off. By the time we get info, if we even get any info, the original message is watered down by a at least three people prior to us and it is pisses us tf off, 'cause bad or no info turns a call we're on into something where we could be in deep 💩 and not go home at the end of the shift.

You might want to take some time to ask a fellow dispatcher how it felt to be on the radio handling a call - THE call - that turned out to be a cop's last call ever 'cause that cop got seriously injured or died. It sucks for both sides to live with that feeling.