Calls we should not be responding to

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Contact messages


Pick up the damn phone and call this person yourself, or drive to their house and check on them yourself, or if you are unable to drive there due to distance or whatever reason, hire a friggin messenger service.

There are plenty of companies that will gladly take your money to go and deliver a message for you, or to “check on” someone.

We need to stop allowing tax payers' money to be used, and needed resources being taken off the street, to “check on” someone (aka contact message sig 170).

“But they could be in danger.” Well, they COULD also win the lottery, but that’s probably not going to happen either. If you can not clearly articulate any credible reason to believe they are in immediate danger, then tax payers' money should not be used to “check on” them.

And no... “I haven’t heard from them” in a while, is not a credible reason to believe they are in immediate danger. You haven’t heard from them because they don’t want to speak to you.

If they sent you a message stating that they are going to kill themselves or someone else, then yes we will “check on” them. Although suicide is not illegal and the prevention of such should be left to mental health officials, which we are not. But that's an argument for another day.

[Unregistered]

Contact messages


Pick up the damn phone and call this person yourself, or drive to their house and check on them yourself, or if you are unable to drive there due to distance or whatever reason, hire a friggin messenger service.

There are plenty of companies that will gladly take your money to go and deliver a message for you, or to “check on” someone.

We need to stop allowing tax payers' money to be used, and needed resources being taken off the street, to “check on” someone (aka contact message sig 170).

“But they could be in danger.” Well, they COULD also win the lottery, but that’s probably not going to happen either. If you can not clearly articulate any credible reason to believe they are in immediate danger, then tax payers' money should not be used to “check on” them.

And no... “I haven’t heard from them” in a while, is not a credible reason to believe they are in immediate danger. You haven’t heard from them because they don’t want to speak to you.

If they sent you a message stating that they are going to kill themselves or someone else, then yes we will “check on” them. Although suicide is not illegal and the prevention of such should be left to mental health officials, which we are not. But that's an argument for another day.

Nice!

These are the things that we need to be saying in meetings so our leaders can go tell the public, the media, our county govt and so on.

This agency is going to “what if” and CYA itself to death. It has already killed moral with this insane paranoia. This paranoia just causes a massive slowdown while the bad guys just keep on keeping on.

This agency needs to STOP being the EVERYTHING police.