I don't care if it was Detroit, I used to live around there and they probably deal with a bunch of calls a day. (I wonder what the total amount is in Michigan now-a-days!) No child should witness their parent dying and no one takes it seriously. Personally if I was in that family I would make sure the person in dispatch is dealt with personally. Now you have a child that could possibly think he didn't do anything right when his instinct told him to get help.

Not saying that it justifies her actions but there is another problem with this whole scenario. I live somewhat near Detroit(Royal Oak to be exact). The retarded mayor that somehow got reelected inspite of being a moron(Kinda like Bush) thought it was a good idea to reduce the number of police stations and fire departments in detroit. Yes that's right in the city with one of the highest crime rates in the country they reduced the number of Police and Firemen. Why? To save taxpayers money. I'm sorry but if I lived there I'd rather be a little poorer and safe then have more money and be dead.

I'm with the people that think the woman should be fired. Although it's nowhere near the same thing but at the grocery store I work at there are lots of terrible employees that won't get fired simply cause they've been there so long. If people have seniority protecting them they start to think they're special and don't have to worry about doing their job right. In this case someone died because of it. That's just not right.

As for all those people saying that she has to live with knowing this woman's death may be her fault, so what? How do you even know for sure it really bothers her? Their are alot of real scumbags out there that sure as hell wouldn't care that they caused someone they never met to die.