Either LA is fully broken and needs to be thrown away or you are lying. Leaning towards the latter. I've never not got a person right away ever.

Very few people call the police non-emergency line because few people even know it and everyone knows 911

did you think of all the taxes they’ll cut from the rich? no, you only think about yourself and what will happen to you in an emergency

This is what it comes down to.

Rich people matter.

Unless the AI fucks up and makes it sound like an emergency.

They should just spend that money on an ad campaign for the non emergency line

In our society they are the only ones that matter, unless they start to live in fear

Block and move on

Read the downvotes and stfu.

Edit: Ohhh. This is your troll account. Blocking this AI spam bot.

Seems like a good idea to have a mechanism to divert the non-emergency calls off of the 911 dispatchers, then.

This is for sure me sometimes. I'll work something out over 10 minutes and decide that I don't want to deal with any follow up or that the way I typed it wasn't clear enough and I don't want to fix it.

As much as I would like to clock and move inside sometimes, I also believe that silence is complacency, and when I feel something said is wrong that others will read, I have an obligation to say something. I'm definitely not always right, but in some matters it's more perspective and others it's based on fact. This conversation ran it's course for me.

Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call

This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond

Wait, that sounds like the last century as well...

So if you are in trouble or held against your will and you say you'll order pizza but sneK a call to 911 for help instead and pretend to order and give your address for delivery hoping an operator catches on.... Doubt the AI will catch on.

I've worked as a first responder for a number of years, our county like many have an emergency number, 911, and a non-emergency number, i.e. 123-456-7890. We actually carry cards with the nom emergency number on it with us in the truck to pass out if a call was less than an emergency for people in our county to put into their phones for future use.
We also are a smaller place and only ever have 2-3 dispatchers on at a time, so if the calls on the non-emergency line they got could be 'auto-filled' by the AI with the location, need, and everything and wasn't tieing up a dispatcher that would be great. The main 911 number needs to ALWAYS be human answered. If the dispatcher makes the decision that it is non-emergent and transfers it over to the AI when they're busy then great, but those first words you hear after you hit 911 needs to be human.

I've worked as a first responder for a number of years, our county like many have an emergency number, 911, and a non-emergency number, i.e. 123-456-7890. We actually carry cards with the nom emergency number on it with us in the truck to pass out if a call was less than an emergency for people in our county to put into their phones for future use.
We also are a smaller place and only ever have 2-3 dispatchers on at a time, so if the calls on the non-emergency line they got could be 'auto-filled' by the AI with the location, need, and everything and wasn't tieing up a dispatcher that would be great. The main 911 number needs to ALWAYS be human answered. If the dispatcher makes the decision that it is non-emergent and transfers it over to the AI when they're busy then great, but those first words you hear after you hit 911 needs to be human.

AI is horrible at understanding context. remember when that lady was calling the police about her abuser and coded it to sound like a pizza order? yea I can see an AI hanging up

Great question! Here is a recipe for disaster:

1/2 Tsp Flour

1 Tbsp. Baking Powder

2 Cups Salt

4 Sticks Cold Butter

1/4 Cup White Chocolate Chips

6 Large Eggs (Scrambled)

Preheat oven to broil, spoon batter onto plastic baking sheet, and let bake overnight.

You're wondering if a place that grew on monopoly and extortion, with some of the most impoverished, deprived and violent neigborhoods in the country, along with some of the most exclusive and expensive collections of gated mansions, could have serious fundamental issues?
I'd think it's safe to assume that's it's this one...

A quick google search when I was initially fact-checking took me to this reddit post ; I'm highly skeptical of both the LAPD and reddit so went for 15 minutes to be "safe" but make of it what you will...