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| Crime-ridden Washington DC offers 911 dispatchers $800 bonus just for showing up to work |
| 2024-08-15 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The bosses in charge of DC's crumbling 911 dispatch system have resorted to offering their staff an extra $800 a month just to turn up to work when they are supposed to. The desperate move came after the number of dangerously undermanned shifts jumped from 24 percent in May, to 88 percent in July. IT failures have stopped emergency calls coming through seven times so far this year including earlier this month when a five-month-old baby died during a two-hour outage. And the system has become so unreliable that DC Fire and EMS has now created a shadow dispatch operation for the calls they need to deal with. 'Is it not wild to you that our first-responder agency has set up a workaround for our 911 call center?' demanded DC council member Brianne Nadeau. 'It's bonkers.' |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 A really smart reporter (ok that is a non-sequitur) would compare response times and service call durations against addresses within the District. I'm confident that Kalorama, Dupont Circle, Georgetown and the tony neighborhoods of the near Southwest have far better statistics than say Anacostia. Even the dispatch drones know the number segments for the powerful people I'd wager. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-08-15 17:20 |
| #5 They would speak English, so no way they would understand the callers. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-08-15 15:24 |
| #4 heck, outsource it to India. Probably will be just as responsive and effective. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-08-15 15:12 |
| #3 /\ The remaining 62% are retired....federal, state, or local government |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-08-15 14:44 |
| #2 "WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "..., 38% of workers say they work for federal, state, or local government in Washington, D.C...." https://news.gallup.com/poll/141785/gov-employment-ranges-ohio.aspx |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-08-15 14:39 |
| #1 Lowest crime rate in 50 years, Jack! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-08-15 12:21 |