When you’re a victim of a crime that isn’t an active emergency, such as having your car broken into while on vacation, you’re supposed to call the non-emergency number. But the City of Seattle isn’t picking up the phone in many instances. And the city doesn’t track how many missed calls are coming in when the line is non-operational.
The city’s newly-created Seattle Community Safety and Communications Center Department (CSCC) now handles incoming 911 calls. To help meet the demands of police abolitionists, the Seattle City Council removed the police from handling emergency calls. It was meant to cut the SPD’s budget, while setting the city up for the
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