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_Damian S_ wrote: Nice selective quoting there... the important part is that the offender has left and isn't likely to return.
It's up to the operator to decide if someone if likely to turn up or has fled. When an offender leaves (which last time I checked, most criminals do so after committing a crime), he is likely to be caught in the area. Now that every criminal knows this is the policy, all they have to do is leave an area before or while someone is on the phone with 911 and they won't be pursued, and ever caught.
The worst part about it is that the victim can't ask for the police if the perp has left. Let's say that someone breaks into your house, rapes your family (you can't fight back, you are unarmed), then leaves, you might want to request an actual officer to show up right?
_Damian S_ wrote: Scenes of Crime (or whatever the mob over there are called who come and take fingerprints) will still turn up.
I haven't seen anywhere that says they will actually ever show up. It appears it will all be done by phone.
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Quote: Let's say that someone breaks into your house, rapes your family (you can't fight back, you are unarmed), then leaves, you might want to request an actual officer to show up right?
Quote: Chicago police are no longer responding in person to 911 calls reporting vehicle theft, garage burglary or simple assault in a change aimed at freeing up officers to deal with more serious crimes.
The story doesn't seem to agree with your concern. I'd like to think that what you described would qualify as more than 'simple assault' and fit nicely into 'more serious crime'. I know, slippery slope and all. Soon justice will be dispensed from vending machines!
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I'd like to think it would too, the line is incredibly vague. I know that there would be self defense scenarios that won't be responded to. I have had to remove someone from my house (just knocked on my door and walked in). Now who is to say that he won't come back, or that having an officer respond to search the area wouldn't lead to his arrest and potentially stop another crime.
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Chicago is an open portal to hell, along with Detroit and a few other large cities.
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It's on the more expensive end of portals to hell, too.
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It's become a well known story/joke in the UK with many variations:-
A man calls the police and says "a man is breaking into my car right in front of my house right now in broad daylight, please come and arrest him."
The police reply, "Sorry we don't have anyone available to do that you'll have to wait until tomorrow and we'll send you out a trained councellor to make you feel better about loosing your car.". The man says. "That's OK, that's what I though you'd say. I've finished loading my shotgun now, click, clack, I'll go and deal with the problem myself." and puts the phone down.
Five minutes later the entire street is full of armed police, screaming sirens, specialist vehicles, ambulances and a fire engine.
The car theif gets a 3 month sentence for which he only spends just long enough inside to learn how to do it properly and is then released. The victim gets a bill for £6000 'legal fees' and a suspended sentence for wasting police time, looses his car, his job, his house, his wife and his children within the year.
Some versions of the story add an ironic happy ending but I'm afraid they're just not credible.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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*cough* 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Nah, they disassemble.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Yes, that's more appropriate 
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Dang, I want that on my headstone (when it's time, that is!)
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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No!!! No disassemble!!
Johnny 5 is alive!
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Reminds me of "The Perfect Program":
"No program is perfect,"
They said with a shrug.
"The customer's happy--
What's one little bug?"
But he was determined,
The others went home.
He dug out the flow chart
Deserted, alone.
Night passed into morning.
The room was cluttered
With core dumps, source listings.
"I'm close," he muttered.
Chain smoking, cold coffee,
Logic, deduction.
"I've got it!" he cried,
"Just change one instruction."
Then change two, then three more,
As year followed year.
And strangers would comment,
"Is that guy still here?"
He died at the console
Of hunger and thirst.
Next day he was buried
Nines down, leading edge first.
And his wife through her tears,
Accepting his fate,
Said "He's not really gone,
He's just working late."
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Very Good Ian !
That's exactly my life!
I shared this with my colleagues as well (all of them developers)
Cheers
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Following Nagy's link below about some Hungarian chap I saw a link to the following page which it was impossible not to click on...
Clickety Clit[^]
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If it moves, compile it
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Is that a model of Cher?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Excellent
I love the quote : "I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
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"Most Gypsies are not suitable for cohabitation. They are not suitable for being among people. Most are animals, and behave like animals. They shouldn't be tolerated or understood, but stamped out. Animals should not exist. In no way." Zsolt Bayer, Magyar Hirlap, 5 January 2013
This man is a good friend, confidant and advisor to The Great Victator. He's also an unapologetic cvnt.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Reminds me of the song: You are my SUNSHINE, you are my SUNSHINE...
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Stamped out.. That's like trying to rid the world of cockroaches. He won't succeed.
Have they actually put in any effort, though? All I'm hearing is lots of big talk
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Hmm, sounds just like what Hitler said about the Jews...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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if this[^] has ever happened to anyone?
cheers,
Marco Bertschi
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uh, yea...  
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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