If there was trouble and you needed help...

justplainpossum

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who would you call first? The police/sheriff, family/friends, or neighbors? Please also say if you live in the country, the city, or the suburbs.
 
911/police, suburban city dweller here. I figure, if you have time to call someone, it should be the people who can scale the response to the situation as needed and are trained for such situations. Not just the police, but also the 911 operators getting as much and the appropriate information and who can also dispatch medical services if things go awry before police get there.
 
Call 911 regardless of where you live and tell them the problem they will send you the help you need.
 
Call 911 and get them rolling. It's the one-stop, first-responder call and the one that will get the proper help moving in your direction.

Funny story. I'm a school-house cop, a school resource officer in a high school. I work for the local sheriff's office, but I work at the high school. One day a distraught parent came into the school and I heard loud voices so I went to see what the problem was. While trying to de-escalate the situation, the lady began to berate me, insisting that she wanted the real po-lice. She called 911 and told them that she needed a police officer at the high school.

Within seconds, my radio lit up. I told the dispatcher I was on scene and had the situation under control. Then, I turned to the distraught parent. "Okay, ma'am. You called 911. They called me. How can I help you?"

You can call family, friends, neighbors, depending on the circumstance and the problem you may be having, but a 911 call will get first-responders headed in your direction.
 
Rural area, 911 for the fastest response of Sheriff and or State Police, maybe both and or ambulance.
 
Too vague a question...

'Help' is too general...

If you mean I need the police, then I call 911...

But it will be 20 minutes minimum where I live, so whatever the situation is, it's too late by the time I call for 'help'...

And far too late by the time any 'help' arrives...
 
Vague question indeed.

If I was in trouble where a firearm was the solution, my first call would be 911 regardless of where I lived. I do live in the suburbs however.
 
911 to get the right people headed in my direction and to have it on record that I am in trouble. My rural location, however, typically means whatever kind of trouble comes up, I need to be prepared to handle it myself.
 
I'd call 911, but in the best case scenario, its gonna take the sheriff 30 minutes to get here.

So I'd just call, leave the phone on, so they have a recording of what's going on.

Another problem, I have to be close to the house phone cause cell phones don't work in this canyon.

So I just play it as it comes.
 
You don't describe "the problem." so it really depends. If it's serious and it's criminal or appears to be such and it's outside my house I call 911. If for instance the truck has a flat tire I call the wife.:D

Close enough to town that 911 would response rather quickly.
 
I honestly don't see why you would want to dial anything except 911. By doing so, you both get the help you need as promptly as it is available and you go on record as having the problem and asking for LE involvement in case you are pressed into a SD shooting.

Neighbors and family may or may not be home, may or may not handle the situation well, may or may not be equipped with an appropriate combination of firearms and body armor, and definitely will not provide you with the documentation of the event that you may need.
 
Define "trouble" ?

Assuming we are talking about some sort of an intruder or tresspassers, either way I would call 911 after grabbing a firearm and some spare magazines if I was not carrying. I live in the suburbs BTW

If I was home, I would hole up in my bedroom.

If I was at my families property in WI(which is very rural) I very well may arm up and flee into the woods, our main building up there is not the greatest place the hold up as it stands.

I honestly don't see why you would want to dial anything except 911.

I have a good example of a situation. Our Ex-Neighbor (God rest his soul) up in Wisconsin was a retired Cook County Judge. He was a great guy, we helped each other all the time. He was also a gun guy.

The one time we have had to call 911 up at the family property about unknown trespassers on our property, after dark it took the cops about 40-45 mins to arrive. If things are going to go wrong, no way they will get there first. I could have seen calling our Neighbor first, then 911. Two guns are better than one.
Plus given the location of his property we could have gotten a would be intruder in one heck of a cross fire.

Most of the time it is better to call 911 first but sometimes situations, like I mentioned above your best chances for survival may be elsewhere.
 
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