Imagine this its 3 am you get a call from the central station monitoring your stores burglar alarm and it has activated an internal motion sensor .
So you look at cameras you had installed on your smart phone everything seems OK but you can not see everywhere . You put on your sweat clothes go down to your store and all looks OK you assure yourself its a false alarm and you have a weapon with you just in case and you enter the store only to be confronted by a Burglar who has broken thru the roof.
This merchant could not afford a paid armed response force like the big company's have in place and meet clients at the door.
This exact scenario is about to play out in the city as the police commander has decided to reduce police staffing and calls from 200,000 to 50,000 a year over night .
Not only are they not going to respond to non active crime scenes or burglar alarms . they are eliminating desk sargents at all police stations and install emergency call boxes citizens can use instead.
I just wrote how municipal building are getting rid of them due to liability and the city of Pittsburgh is installing them .
Yes the citizens of Pittsburgh are going to be the ones paying the price and anyone caught in the city working or traveling thru late at night .
Criminals are going to fully take advantage of it. and are already talking about it according to a couple corrections officials I know especially the bad juveniles who're freely running the streets because there is no place to lock them up in Allegheny county.
Yes at a time when crime is rising people are leaving the city as well as business and they go to this very unwise plan .
