I hope your burglar alarm don't go off in S.F.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Was That a Burglar Alarm? Nah....

Fri Jan 21, 2:19 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters



SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police in a prosperous Californian city near San Francisco will begin ignoring most burglar alarms, prompted by too many false alarms and too little money.

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Fremont police said the overwhelming majority of warning signals they receive are false alarms that cost the city $600,000 a year. Because of budget cuts, starting next month they will only respond if they have additional verification, such as a video feed of a crime occurring or a witness report.


"We had 7,000 alarm calls last year and 66 of those were burglary," police chief Craig Steckler told KTVU television. "What do you want us to do?"


Several large cities have similar policies, including Salt Lake City, Milwaukee and Las Vegas, the police department said.


The city estimates 41 percent of Fremont's 209,000 residents earn more than $100,000 a year.


But California's state and local governments have faced money problems in recent years. Salinas, author John Steinbeck's hometown, recently said it would close all its libraries for financial reasons.

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