Re: Commercial Alarm - help

["Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Jackcsg wrote:
> > "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > J. Sloud said:
> > >
> > > >Do a google search for "99% false alarm" and you'll see reports from
> > > >police departments all across the country showing false alarm rates
at
> > > >or above 99%.
> > >
> > > Stop and think how that percentage is calculated.
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > Here's how simple the calculation is: The Police are notified to respond
to
> > a burglar alarm going off at xyz residence. Police arrive, find no sign
of a
> > break-in at the premise. This is logged as a "False Alarm". This
information
> > is collected all Year long. At the end of the year, they compare the
actual
> > calls for response, with ACTUAL crimes. Response vs. Crime.
> >
> > 100% Response
> > 99% False Alarm
> > 1% Valid Crime
> >
> > If I'm wrong, show me a report from a responding authority having
> > jurisdiction that states otherwise. "SHOW ME"
>
>
> Just because it's published by a bureaucrat doesn't make it correct. In
> fact, the very opposite is true. You know that any time a politician
> says something is right or wrong, it's only being said to further their
> own agenda and has actually nothing to do with "real" right and wrong.
> If you're saying that the 99% figure is what they use and are basing
> their decisions on, I couldn't deny it. As to it's accuracy, it's
> wrong. All it takes is education and in my area, we've taken a
> proactive stance and have brought in the experts to teach them how to
> calculate and compare alarm signals in the real world, so that they can
> see the results of 2 call verification, fines, and all the statistics
> from proven studies and programs in other areas. So far they've
> listened. And no response, is off the table, so far. You're right,
> something's got to be done, but calling all alarms systems useless or
> implying it, or perpetuating it,  with that 99% false alarm myth, isn't
> true. Even the police agree (in this area anyway) Like the man said,
> when the police figure out how to reduce crime 100%, that's when the
> alarm industry will reduce false alarms 100%

I'm not saying alarms aren't effective. Some are.
Out of 10,000 dispatches, 100 can be defined as an actual crime. It's 100%
effective for the one hundred. I don't dispute that, nor that it is
effective.
What I'm saying is, the department that collected that information, uses
that data to determine man power. Man power which is paid for by people's
taxes.
Their efforts are based on the intervention of actual crimes, with the
number of responses, of which produces a by product of...a percentage.
It's not Political, but there is sometimes no denying there may be an
underlaying agenda.
Problem is, IMO, that agenda often travels the wrong road, and offers no
solution towards reversing the direction. Big money will continue to curupt
the system, and the Country.
Like you, I'm a Craftsman guy, living in a Wal Mart world....with no end in
site.