“It gets to you sometimes, how scary...
“It gets to you sometimes, how scary it sounds out there.”
--Brenda Hickie, who left her job as a traffic patrol officer to become an operator at the Los Angeles Police Department’s 911 emergency command center, which receives 5,000 to 7,000 calls a day.
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