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Dallas nixes verified response for commercial burglar alarms

The Dallas City Council earlier this month foolishly rejected Police Chief David Kunkle's highly successful initiative to require verification for commercial burglar alarms before sending police to respond. Mayor Tom Leppert pushed the council to vote 10-4 to overturn the nearly two-year old policy, despite the fact that it saved the department money, reduced fines on local businesses and enabled DPD to improve other services, all while burglaries declined.More than 97% of commercial alarms in Dallas turn out to be false and of those that are real police almost never arrive in time to catch anyone in the act. For home alarms that figure is even higher.Burglar alarm services sold by private companies are a classic example of "security theater...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).