Help on Hold: Dallas police take hours to respond after kids on a sidewalk were hit by a car

There are more questions about the Dallas Police Department’s slow response time after two 10-year-old boys waited hours for police officers after they were hit by a car while riding their bicycles on a sidewalk.

One of the boys was hurt when they were both knocked to the ground along Vickery Boulevard last month, Jeff Hauschild, the injured boy’s father, told NBC 5 Investigates. Dallas Police confirm it took officers more than four and a half hours to arrive and begin investigating the crash.

Police told NBC 5 Investigates that they coded the call as an urgent Priority 2 response, stipulating that officers should respond in fewer than 12 minutes, according to the department’s response time goals…

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