• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    For sure.

    If they’ve got a problem with non-emergency callers dialing 911, surely it would be best to try and reduce that problem through other means (such as fining persistent inappropriate use of 911)

    I don’t want to talk to a robot when I’m on the floor dying.

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      1 day ago

      I think the non-emergency number should be heavily advertised. I have no idea what the local one for me is (if it even exists)

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        1 day ago

        Promoting that the nunber exists as a actual thing people should use is good, yeah. :)

        The actual number isn’t so important, though. If ever needed to call the non-emergency number I’d search it up, which fortunately I can do given I’ve got loads of time because it’s not an emergency.

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          I would bet there are large swaths of people that don’t know there is a nonemergency number to look up.

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        21 hours ago

        Maybe they need to send something out to residents every six months or something, letting them know about the non-emergency number because I have this exact same issue. I’ve lived here for three years and have no idea if a non-emergency number even exists. It probably does. I just haven’t looked it up because I haven’t even thought about it.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Well…I’m anti-AI as it gets, and I don’t support this measure, but I would like to point out if you’re on the floor dying, that WOULD be an emergancy call.