Re: Commercial Alarm - help

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

Jackcsg wrote:
> We wouldn't need them. Money would go to things like schools, feeding
> children, social support services, community services, recreation, etc,
> etc...
> Right know we're paying them to drive in circles...
> We should have Waste Management respond to alarms while they're picking up
> trash. ;-)


I betcha if the cops were given a choice of responding to false alarms
or being laid off, they'd have a different perspective. All they're
hoping for is less to do. Take a look as some of the cities/towns
who've instituted no response. Have they laid off ALLLLLL of the police
that were SOOOOOO busy responding to false alarms?  If not, I'm sure
they should have a lot of statistics about how the crime rate has gone
down. Oppps! don't have that either huh! It not about false alarms,
it's all political garbage. Feel good laws that do nothing to actually
make things better. There's no way the industry should buy into their
99% rate of false alarms boondoggle. Educate them, sue them, wake them
up somehow. But if you let them take you down that road to politician
land, there's no way to get out. Their premise is wrong. It's the
industrys job to correct it and educate them. ( now ..... whether they
WILL or not, or CAN ,or not, is another story) But so far, I think it
is working in more areas than it's not. It's working here, anyway.

Hmmmm ...... Now on the other hand, how long is it going to be before
the people who break into homes and businesses start to get bolder and
utimately prove that even response to false alarms is a deterrent. If
intruders know that there's any chance that the police will respond,
they're a little bit more reluctant and don't stay around as long. Not
much, but better than knowing that they're NEVER going to respond.

It's just like what's been happening in England the last 5 or 6 years.
They've confiscated all the privately owned firearms. Have created laws
that don't allow home owners to harm intruders under the threat of
imprisonment and being allowed to be sued by the intruders. In the last
few years, violent crime in England has exceeded every record . ie. No
deterrent, more crime.