Perfect
@Friday Fan -- here we see the radio that
might fall off the duty belt, and the radio with that darn, inconvenient, antenna -the one that might slap your leg when running!
You never leave your communication device when responding to an emergency. It may be the only way to insure that you can get the assets you need into the situation
This thing about the radio just enrages me.
Yeah, maybe the antenna slapping his leg might slow him down---by like a minute. It's hardly a huge obstacle for a cop. Instead, by forfeiting his radio so he could allegedly get in more quickly, it turned into a 77-minute debacle. A debacle with police likely frenzied to breach the door, but believing they had to obey the orders from an UNINFORMED chief.
As an example, all the gear that firemen wear certainly slows response time, particularly when climbing up a high-rise when a fire knocks out the elevators. But WITHOUT that equipment, a firefighter would be unable to breathe, to knock down a door, put out the fire and save lives.
And, as I've mentioned before, on 9/11 the radios didn't work at the WTC and that led to the deaths of 300+ firemen. They didn't know they were being told to evacuate as the buildings were about to collapse, so they kept climbing up.
Those radios work both ways----to receive information to save victims, and to receive up-to-date information on how the situation may be changing for the first responders, as well.
PA's radio would have been a game-changer, IMO.
Though I'm not forgetting that the culprit is Ramos.
ETA: as an aside, on 9/11, many firefighters who were buried deep beneath the rubble were located when their oxygen canisters ran out, and it was the beeping from those that allowed their bodies to be retrieved.
I know it's not the same----I'm just musing on how vital ALL equipment is for first responders.
After all, that's why their gear is their gear. Each part.