False Alarms
The LAPD is concerned about the cost of responding to false alarms (“False Alarm Responses Are Costly,” Voices, Jan. 13). Joe Gunn states that responding wastes 56 man-days a year and that the Police Department is collecting $5 million to $6 million in false-alarm citations. At about $100,000 per person-day, that sounds like a pretty good profit center to me.
Seriously, responding to an alarm in three hours is not responding at all.
JACK CRAWFORD
Ridgecrest
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
