Immediate help? From our local cops? You must live somewhere else. While my experience is with EPD, not the UOPD, we don't get any sort of response to speak of. 

Yesterday, a business owner was trapped in her building by a tweeker. She called 911; they called her back an hour later. Fortunately, people from the neighborhood took care of it. 

A month ago, a tweeker tried to break into seven nearby homes at 1:00 AM. EPD's response: Call us back when he gets in. Sure enough, he did get into a terminal cancer patient's home and made a mess of things. An hour later they did deign to show up. Their logs indicated there was no other activity.

When I disrespect our local cops, it's because this crew of unprofessional, lazy, incompetent slugs have earned it. Sure, there are a couple of local cops who don't fit that description, but they are woefully outnumbered at work.