Stop calling 911 to report COVID-19 rule-breakers - dispatch

Stop calling 911 to report COVID-19 rule-breakers - dispatch Dec 21, 2020 19:47:38 GMT OrsonSwelles and Fox in the Snow like this

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Post by autumn on Dec 21, 2020 19:47:38 GMT

Dec 21, 2020 10:34:57 GMT ebony said:

Dec 21, 2020 10:22:02 GMT kls said:

I mean they are violations of the laws if they break the rules a government established.

But not every violation of law is supposed to be reported to 911. That's for emergencies. I mean I wouldn't even call 911 if my car was stolen (unless I saw it happening that second). I'd call a non emergency number.

Why call police over consensual activities (house parties, hosting visitors at a private residence) when the caller isn't even the one being put at risk if they're a neighbour? I understand the potential threat to one's own health by lack of social distancing, but if they're in a public place can't they just walk somewhere without people within 6 feet?

All of those big house parties and big gatherings at bars where people are drinking and dancing are consensual activities. So what? Once they leave their consensual big gathering, they've potentially contracted the virus and/or exposed others to it, where they (or others) then pick it up and bring it home and spread it to others, their friends and family within their home.

If anyone in that family happens to be a frontline worker, now THEY are put at higher risk and so are the people they then come in contact with, all because of that selfish "consensual big party" someone just had to go to.

I will never understand such selfish thoughtlessness. It doesn't just affect those "consensually gathered." Why are there still people who don't understand that?