Here’s the thing – when you stop responding on calls like audible burglar alarms, alarm companies will then claim it’s a silent alarm or hold up or some other alarm that meets your response criteria.

Similarly, neighbors will call anonymously and claim they saw somebody breaking in, when in fact they’re just griping about the noise.

Policies like this one are just asking for trouble.

Ask the Stockton, CA police department. They had a “non response” list for alarms that frequently cried wolf. Guess what? The bad guys had access to that list. So when an alarm company calls in a hold up alarm at a liquor store and the police don’t respond (only to find two dead employees inside a few hours later) tell me how this policy is working to protect the public again?

I don’t get it.

Here’s the thing – when you stop responding on calls like audible burglar alarms, alarm companies will then claim it’s a silent alarm or hold up or some other alarm that meets your response criteria.

Similarly, neighbors will call anonymously and claim they saw somebody breaking in, when in fact they’re just griping about the noise.

Policies like this one are just asking for trouble.

Ask the Stockton, CA police department. They had a “non response” list for alarms that frequently cried wolf. Guess what? The bad guys had access to that list. So when an alarm company calls in a hold up alarm at a liquor store and the police don’t respond (only to find two dead employees inside a few hours later) tell me how this policy is working to protect the public again?

I don’t get it.