So do Police respond to all calls about a suspicious person?

[trumad]

The Zimmerman case has me asking this question.

Zimmerman called 9/11 because a Black teenage kid was walking though the neighborhood with a bag of skittles and a cell phone.

Is it an automatic thing for a 9/11 dispatcher to send police because of that type of activity?

[bettyellen]

1. I think it largely depends on their resources (how busy) And the amount of danger you communicate.

[pinto]

2. In my small city (pop ~ 45,000) they do. Usually a simple, cursory face to face check.

Usually nothing comes of it. I'd guess priorities are different in larger communities.

[avaistheone1]

3. In my city the police do respond immediately with a visit. We have a population of about 200,000 and

we are one of the safest cities of its size in the country.

[quinnox]

4. depends, if its a report about a "scary" black man the police will arrive in minutes and prepared

for action, maybe even with guns drawn. If its about some white dude then it will probably go to the back burner and considered a "non-emergency". The police might or might not show up in a few hours, if at all.

[rollin74]

5. in general, yes

it may be considered low priority, however, and get pushed to the back burner if there are more urgent calls to respond to

[OriginalGeek]

6. My friend and I once had a long talk with local LEO

because we had parked his sister's giant Griswold type station wagon in a "rich" neighborhood waiting for this girl he liked to come by. We were late teens, long haired and dirty in a non-neighborhood-approved vehicle, smoking cigarettes and loitering and I reckon a neighbor got nervous.

The only reason we were let go is because the girl he liked drove by with her mother and they saw us and stopped to ask what all the hub-bub was about. The mother vouched for us and the cops let us go with her to her house.



Just in time too as I think I was about to sweat right through my baggie of weed. This was in the days of flip-over sealing of sandwich bags. You kids don't know nothing about flip-over sandwich bags what with yer fancy zip-locs and color-changing seals and such!

[Shrike47]

7. In Josephine County Oregon (Grants Pass) they may not respond to ANYTHING after hours.

Woman recently assaulted and raped after ex broke into the house. She had called 911 and explained. Dispatch told her 'sorry, keep the door locked'. That didn't work.

They have no budget and like 2 patrol deputies for the entire county.