Answer the 911 phone

Dear Editor,
Many people complain about the lack of or the timeliness of the Police response. It seems that the Police are taking steps in making sure that you don’t call them by not answering the 911 calls. And they further cover up their lack of response to the 911 line by having a little educational advertisement warning people not to make prank calls to the 911 number. As if to say that it is because the foolish idiots of the public are making crank calls to the 911 line that they (the Police) are not going to answer it because it is wasting their time and that any problems (beatings, robberies, rapes, mass killings, etc.) that stem from their not answering the 911 calls is actually the fault of the same foolish idiots of the public!

What a twisted knotted rope.
The year is 2008. We have a digital telephone system. All calls are logged. Identify the prank callers. Fine the prank callers. Answer the damn 911 phone. No more excuses.
Yours faithfully,
Ravindra Saul

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