2nd time is enough -DC loses Emergency Communications and Mayor Gray needs to step up and setup a taskforce
So I'm reading the story about the Uber driver kidnapping in DC and noticed the part about how DC MPD couldn't respond because there was no emergency communications. Having been involved in DC Emergency Preparedness since 9/11 up until I questioned the handling of Pete Piringer by the Mayor back in 2011-- I know as much as any person in DC about the hows and why our Emergency Operation Plan "EOP" is supposed to unfold. Part and parcel to this plan is that our equipment works and that departments respond, and I have to say that under no uncertain terms the District of Columbia cannot handle day to day operations there is no way in the world we could deal with any medium to large scale disaster. BTW this is not the first time that this happened back in 2010 on a Monday nite DC lost this same capability for over 3 hours. The solution to have analog radios...