Don’t see why charging is so outrageous. More than 90% of 911 calls are NOT emergencies. Mostly silly stuff. I pay taxes. Why should I subsidize people who make stupid 911 calls? The $48 a year sounds like a good and not unreasonable deal.
Read the whole thing, the 911 stuff is the tip of the iceberg.
“More than 90% of 911 calls are NOT emergencies”
I lived in Queens, NY for a year in the late ‘80s. I remember I had to go to the ER and waited nearly 5 hours as time and time again 911 ambulances brought in mostly black individuals who had minor ailments. I complained about it and was told by some people waiting that this was a common thing in the city. Because they knew they would be seen first if they arrived in an ambulance frivolous calls to 911 were made by people not really so sick that it required emergency attention. So I can only assume Chicago is experiencing the same thing and to stop it put a surcharge on it. Since when is Roger Ebert an expert on anything? It is disgusting how celebrities monopolize space to jabber about things they know nothing about.