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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo do Police respond to all calls about a suspicious person?
The Zimmerman case has me asking this question.
Zimmerman called 9/11 because a Black teenage kid was walking though the neighborhood with a bag of skittles and a cell phone.
Is it an automatic thing for a 9/11 dispatcher to send police because of that type of activity?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)Usually nothing comes of it. I'd guess priorities are different in larger communities.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)we are one of the safest cities of its size in the country.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)for action, maybe even with guns drawn. If its about some white dude then it will probably go to the back burner and considered a "non-emergency". The police might or might not show up in a few hours, if at all.
rollin74
(1,990 posts)it may be considered low priority, however, and get pushed to the back burner if there are more urgent calls to respond to
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)because we had parked his sister's giant Griswold type station wagon in a "rich" neighborhood waiting for this girl he liked to come by. We were late teens, long haired and dirty in a non-neighborhood-approved vehicle, smoking cigarettes and loitering and I reckon a neighbor got nervous.
The only reason we were let go is because the girl he liked drove by with her mother and they saw us and stopped to ask what all the hub-bub was about. The mother vouched for us and the cops let us go with her to her house.
Just in time too as I think I was about to sweat right through my baggie of weed. This was in the days of flip-over sealing of sandwich bags. You kids don't know nothing about flip-over sandwich bags what with yer fancy zip-locs and color-changing seals and such!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Woman recently assaulted and raped after ex broke into the house. She had called 911 and explained. Dispatch told her 'sorry, keep the door locked'. That didn't work.
They have no budget and like 2 patrol deputies for the entire county.