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Posted on 02/23/2024 3:42:52 PM PST by Leaning Right
Beginning Monday, Pittsburgh police won’t respond to any calls that aren’t in progress emergencies.
Chief Larry Scirotto wants to cut their call volume from approximately 200,000 calls per year down to about 50,000.
That essentially means that calls for criminal mischief, theft, harassment and burglary alarms, just to name a few, will all be handled by the telephone reporting unit or online reporting.
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Otherwise, don’t bother. You’re on your own.
If a guy is kicking in my door, I guess that would be an “in progress emergency”. But the police would only know about that if I decided to call them up.
What if I just engaged in self-defense and dealt with the problem? Nothing in progress anymore. Certainly no emergency taking place. I guess the police would have no interest in the situation. Seems best not to call at all.
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Your logic is impeccable.
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There is no crime if it is not responded to, investigated, crimals investigated, convicted, and jailed. So I guess let’s give all criminals choice one-way ticket to a city like this, else jail.
WHY BOTHER WITH BURGLAR ALARMS???
Unless you’ve been shot and are bleeding out, just STFU. If you are being raped, seek counseling after the experience.
BLM was absolutely right. Cops are pigs. Do away with them and we will take care of things ourselves. Cops exist only to protect criminals from their just deserts.
He’s dead Jim, no urgency here.
Beware, we have guns and a backhoe. 😁
deserts = desserts?
Grammar Police on patrol.
On the hand maybe “desert” works in this case.
Just send a text message to 911.
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