A violent weekend in San Jose has prompted questions about police responses to 911 calls.
The San Jose police union wants to know why there wasn’t a departmental request for mutual aid. The question highlights a split between the San Jose Police Department and its unionized officers.
The association said dozens of additional 911 calls went unanswered for hours due to a shortage of officers. Despite requiring overtime from so-called swing-shift and third shift officers, some portions of America’s 10th largest city had no police officers available for emergency service calls. "I’ve never been working a shift where the calls were so out of hand that we had to call in an allied agency," said Camarillo.
But representatives for the officers’ union said with some of its members forced to work 16 hours or more, additional, outside resources were needed this past weekend.
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