‘This is the Wild West’: Long police wait times in major cities leave victims feeling helpless
Fox News
Emergency response times are getting longer in major cities, frustrating police and victims. "This is the Wild West," one man said after his friend's attack.
Judd and Mary Costantino were walking in Southwest Portland when, out of nowhere, a metal water bottle was flung, striking Costantino in the face and knocking her unconscious. There was no warning. Surveillance video showed the attack happened in about three seconds, with a figure darting across the light rail tracks and hurling the bottle. Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.
"What strikes me is just the randomness of this," said Judd, who lived in Portland in the early 2000s and was visiting from Spokane, Washington. "This was not a bad part of town. It's not a bad block. This is a very public place where you get on the train."