Police departments nationwide are encouraging people to stop making 911 calls to report social distancing violations, saying the calls are choking emergency lines during the Covid-19 pandemic and that people should report noncompliance to public health agencies, not law enforcement.
A police officer giving a ticket during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brooklyn, New York City last week.
Police in Ohio, Michigan and San Antonio have asked residents to call non-emergency lines if they wish to report social distancing noncompliance.
But in Chicago, callers reporting social distancing noncompliance to 311 are forwarded to 911, because it is considered a life-threatening situation, according to The Chicago Tribune.
“We believe people should absolutely not call 911 for this type of thing,” Jim Burch, the president of the National Police Foundation, told Forbes.
According to Burch, the best way to report social distancing violations is to call a local public health organization, who receive specific training and have proved successful in shifting community behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Calling 911 to report social distancing violations would flood emergency lines, overwhelm already-limited agency resources, unnecessarily introduce more people into the problem at hand and place police in “an untenable situation,” Burch said.
While some jurisdictions have treated social distancing as a matter of criminal law, Burch told Forbes that in his eyes, “certainly, not calling 911 is a better approach.”
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“This is not a problem that police are well-equipped or prepared to solve, and they shouldn’t be asked or expected to do so in our view,” Burch told Forbes. “Bottom line, we would not recommend that anyone call 911 to report someone not wearing a mask or people who are not observing social distancing guidance or requirements.”
KEY BACKGROUND
After months of Covid-19 crackdowns, all 50 states have started the process of gradually rolling back their restrictions to varying degrees. Different jurisdictions have also approached enforcing those restrictions differently. It’s hard to track nationwide numbers, but police forces across the nation have arrested at least dozens of people for violating local Covid-19 restrictions since stay-at-home orders were issued in March. Burch warned against calling the police to report people who look suspicious instead of behaving suspiciously, which can introduce a risk of bias. Police officers—particularly in New York City—have faced criticism for arresting an unproportional number of black and Hispanic residents in mostly minority neighborhoods while enforcing social-distancing rules, drawing comparisons to controversial “stop and frisk” policies.
Apparently this country has suddenly turned into a COMMUNIST country (or nazi germany.) here in communist-run N.Y. “emperor’ cuomo has a “hotline” set up to turn in your neighbors that has already seen abuse.
Just another way for DEMOCOMMUNISTS to control the “sheeples”, and most are to brainwashed to see how they are being CONTROLLED and “conditioned” to accept the slow creep of COMMUNISM into our Constitutional republic. Wise up America, you are being “played” by the corrupt democommunist scum trying to overthrow the government, the rule of law, our U.S Constitution, and Bill of Rights under the guise of “safety”.
Don’t be fooled.
THIS IS ON THE PRESIDENT AS WELL. HE HAS DONE A VERY POOR JOB LEADING THE COUNTRY. HIS ONLY CONCERNS ARE THE WALL STREET LOVING CORPORATIONS AND HIS RICH CONNECTED PALS. HE DOESN’T GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THOSE OF US WHO SUPPORTED OR VOTED FOR HIM. HE’S LET US ALL DOWN AND KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. WE’RE DOOMED AS A COUNTRY WITH HIM OR BIDEN AS PRESIDENT.
Is this article for real? After a weekend of riots who gives a flying crap about social distancing? The mobs attacking our cities certainly didn’t care.
THIS IS 1984. 36 YEARS LATER.
“He’s never at fault for anything. It’s Fauci’s fault. It’s China’s fault. It’s Obama’s fault. It’s always someone else, somewhere else,” said David Lapan, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration. “He doesn’t want to hear the bad news, he doesn’t take responsibility for the bad news and wants to gloss over it and change the subject. That does a disservice to the American public, who need the facts and the straight truth about what’s going on.”
Forget snitching on your neighbors liked the Hitler youth core. This was overblown mass Hysteria in the first place. I’m going about my life just like I did before all this BS. Don’t like it? Stay in your cave.
You simple blow job narcos should report no one…. YOU NAZI FOOLS THAT IS WHAT HITLER DID TURNED CITIZEN ON CITIZEN….Do you really want that this is
AMERICA the home of the free…
George Floyd should still be alive.
Tony McDade should still be alive.
Breona Taylor should still be alive.
Michael Brown should still be alive.
Eric Garner should still be alive.
Sandra Bland should still be alive.
Philando Castile should still be alive.
Really? You’re advocating our compliance with police-state rules?? That’s what people in communist countries are advised to do–rat on others for violating B.S. rules. That’s not the patriotic thing to do.
How about minding your own business.
Maybe people should mind there own business!
Good grief…enuf already. All jurisdictions are different … besides, I’m not about ready to walk around with a tape measure and snitch. This political “science program is really getting old … but not to certain governors who appear to delight in keeping people shut down!
Must be a lot of calls with all the looting, vandalism, assault and batteries going on in all the country.
“He’s never at fault for anything. It’s Fauci’s fault. It’s China’s fault. It’s Obama’s fault. It’s always someone else, somewhere else,” said David Lapan, a former Department of Homeland Security official in the Trump administration. “He doesn’t want to hear the bad news, he doesn’t take responsibility for the bad news and wants to gloss over it and change the subject. That does a disservice to the American public, who need the facts and the straight truth about what’s going on.”
Just wait until some thug of a cop kills someone for not wearing a mask or for being “too close” to someone else. ALL this “social distancing” is a lot of crap. Just tell them to “Go to Hell”.
Why do patriots love a person that is not a “Patriot” he is a “Nationlist”look it up 😳
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