An internal investigation is under way to determine why it took police more than 30 minutes to find fatally wounded Chicago Police Officer Areanah Preston — but a faster response time would not have saved her life, according to Rich Guidice, Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s chief of staff.
Guidice spent nearly 20 years running the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, which oversees emergency dispatch from Chicago’s 911 emergency center. He is intimately familiar with police and fire dispatch and the impediments to prompt emergency response times.
