Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
Dude, a citizen called 911 to report a man with a gun in the street.
Yup, you need to know the backstory before reaching conclusions. What was called in? What did dispatch say? What were the officers expecting to find? How did they get there? Etc....

Our dispatch officers have been trained to *not* initially tell us certain things on the way to the site of the call, so as not to prejudice our assessment and reactions, and to keep us from getting too amped-up while driving to the location.