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.
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 fucking robot when I’m on the floor dying.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And an LLM determining that accurately would be a dice roll.
davidgro@lemmy.world 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)
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 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.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would bet there are large swaths of people that don’t know there is a nonemergency number to look up.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 23 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.
elmicha@feddit.org 1 day ago
What happens if you put “police your_city” in your favorite search engine? I tried it with my current city and the village where I grew up, and both led me to the phone number in reasonable time.
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That does work (actually ‘non emergency city state’). But as another comment mentions, the public knowing it exists is more important than the number itself.