WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — The controversy over a recent violent crime in the nation’s capital is quickly turning into an accountability crisis for the city’s emergency dispatch system.
For years, the District of Columbia’s 911 Office of Unified Communications (OUC) has been challenged by slow response times, incorrect addresses given to first responders, and a failure to answer emergency calls quickly.
The terrifying reminder that these issues persist came on the night of Saturday, Sept. 20, when an off-duty DC firefighter, Gary Dziekan—known as “Zeek”—was shot outside his Capitol Hill home…