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[Chuck Thies @ChuckThies]

DC elected officials have no compunction about overspending other people's money with little-to-no oversight or concern for effectiveness.

[TheBarrasReport @BarrasReport]

@ChuckThies Let's all say it together. DC does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Full stop.

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@MDE_Unmapped It's a really nice area, but a little two quiet for me.

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@MyLatinLife Yes. This guy recommended it and made a video about it. https://t.co/OiomBNz9X8

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@DcbornrobO @medical_xpress Miss your YouTube channel! Hope you can get it back up soon. Good luck! Maybe post videos on x until it is back up? or maybe both places? Appreciate all that you do!

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@HankThomasDC They also closed their location in Ballston.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

NEW: By hiding from reporters to avoid accountability for Friday's debacle, DC911/@OUC_DC Director Heather McGaffin is doing an enormous disservice to the public in another way. McGaffin should have been in every story about OUC this week with a key message. Here's that message: Despite long waits for 911 to answer, it's critical that callers stay on the line and not hang up. Hanging up and calling 911 again puts you at the back of the line.

Imagine being so scared of having to explain the dysfunction inside DC911 that it overrides spreading this important safety message. A message that can save lives.

McGaffin did the same thing leading up to Independence Day. She should have been on every TV station and in every related article spreading the word about not jamming 911 lines with fireworks reports. McGaffin could have made appearances touting their alternative means of reporting the hundreds of fireworks calls. She didn't do that, again likely due to fears of having to answer other questions about OUC. And there are a lot of questions. They've built up over time for an agency head who won't talk to reporters.

As @tednbc4 first reported, a police report shows the family of the baby boy who died a week ago made two 911 calls and hung up after not getting an answer. STATter911 has learned that at least one call was recorded abandoned at 12:39 p.m. That's eleven minutes before @SafeDC says OUC first learned of the child in cardiac arrest.

That 911 call was one of 269 that people abandoned last Friday at some point after more than 15 seconds. See the chart below 🔽🔽. Remember, the city claimed there were no problems answering 911 calls last Friday. Only the computer system failed, not the phones. Waiting for someone to pick up the phone is just business as usual at OUC. It's that way due to continuing staffing shortages. In July, DC911 failed to meet minimum staffing on almost every shift.

Many hundreds of calls each week are abandoned like this because OUC remains far off from meeting the national benchmark of answering 90 percent of 911 calls within 15 seconds. During the most recent 10 days reported by OUC, the agency hasn't had a single day of 90 percent or above. For the most recent seven days on OUC's website, 28% of callers got a recording and waited more than 15 seconds for an answer. Some waited minutes.

The scary part of all of this is imagining how many of those waiting a minute or more were calling about a real life-threatening emergency where seconds count. We know about the baby. What we don't know is how many others there are that DC911 failed to help. #FixDC911 #911fails
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[Dave Statter @STATter911]

Breaking: For the sixth time since May 23, and the second time in a week, the DC911/@OUC_DC announced to @dcfireems units that the computer system was down. Last week, mistakes made when DC911 lost its computer greatly delayed dispatching of paramedics to a dying five-month old boy. Last week's crash was blamed on a contractor who didn't follow proper procedures for a computer update. OUC Director Heather McGaffin and other city officials still haven't explained why DC911 was not prepared to effectively run 911 without the dispatch computer.
#FixDC911
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@ANCJonah
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[mcclary @AI4Educators]

If you know a 9th-12th grader near one of the cities below who is interested in tech, the @mcuban Foundation (@markcubanai) is putting on free, 3-day AI bootcamps this fall. No experience necessary.

Still time to apply. https://t.co/2FgpHcM9G8

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Email, maps, web browsing and messaging.

Privacy advocate @naomibrockwell explains how apps I use are TERRIBLE for privacy.

Here’s what she said I should use instead:

[DC Crime Facts @dccrimefacts]

Yet another arrest by MPD of someone who allegedly had an illegal gun, an extended magazine & was dealing drugs but there are no charges filed in by the USAO in DC Superior Court.

Many DC homicide suspects are people in the drug trade w/ illegal guns.

https://t.co/9T5mWtDtp1

[Hank Thomas @HankThomasDC]

Shout-out to @KevinMcGilly - “We aren’t treating this (carjacking/crime) like an epidemic, we’re not prioritizing it, I don’t know exactly what needs to be done, but I sure know we’re treating this as less of a priority than it needs to be”

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@DividendBreeder The app prices are pretty good. Value meal for $6 plus tax. Been the same price for over 2 years!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Ilhan Omar tells a crowd of Somalians that her top priority is to put Somalia first and expand its territory

"The US government will do what we want, nothing else. They must follow our orders. That is how we safeguard the interest of Somalia."

[DCist @DCist]

Drivers who are caught on bus-mounted cameras illegally parking or driving in bus lanes could be fined $100 starting Monday.https://t.co/RynbnGkYCd

[Traveler @RowleyDavidK]

@MattPocius It happens to a lot of us :) My last name is Rowley and it is pronounced Row - Li, now rowl - E. But I am sure there is someone that has my exact last name and pronounces it that way. I have heard about seven variations of my last name haha.

[Potomac Fever @FeverPotomac]

Former CM Mary Cheh was right and warned us about policies coming from @charlesallen and @CMLewisGeorgeW4.

[Dave Statter @STATter911]

(1) The @dcdistrictdogs flood shows @MayorBowser's administration doesn't care who gets hurt in its quest to keep DC911/@OUC_DC's mistakes buried. The fact they still refuse to admit what happened is part of a years-long shameful pattern. Here's a history lesson. (more)