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Text-to-911: Authorities say 911 texting has also been abused
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AP Photo/Tamara Lush
Mina Justice speaks to a
reporter discussing texting
with her son, Eddie Justice,
who was in a bathroom
during the mass shooting
at the Pulse nightclub, in
Orlando.
that would allow dispatchers to
receive texts, photos and vid-
eos in real time.
Out of more than 6,000 dis-
patch centers nationwide, a lit-
tle more than 650 can accept
text messages, with more than
150 making the text-to-911
upgrade this year, the Federal
Communications Commission
said.
Later this summer, the
Astoria Police Department
will take its text-to-911 sys-
tem online after briely using it
during a recent phone outage.
Democratic U.S. Sen.
Charles Schumer, of New
York, has been pushing for
text-to-911 in New York City,
which has been studying it
for nearly a year. Such a sys-
tem, he said, can “save lives
by informing 911 dispatchers
of critical details that can guide
irst responders.”
Voice is still best
Emergency oficials stress,
however, that a voice call is
preferred because a dispatcher
can elicit details more quickly
than texting back and forth.
The major concern for many
cities, including some of the
nation’s largest, is that overuse
of texting when it’s not abso-
lutely necessary could slow
response times and cost lives.
In Los Angeles, which doesn’t
have 911 texting, a police dis-
patch oficial last year cau-
tioned that response times for
text 911 could be triple that for
voice calls.
Nearly every municipality
with text-to-911 service has
sought to address that concern
by promoting the slogan: “Call
if you can, text if you can’t.”
Oficials also warn that,
unlike with voice calls, emer-
gency responders can’t auto-
matically see someone’s
approximate location with
text messages. Instead, they
encourage people to give an
accurate address or location
quickly.
Supporters of such systems
say their use would go beyond
active-shooter and hostage sit-
uations to scenarios in which
a battered spouse, for exam-
ple, could surreptitiously mes-
sage police without alerting
the attacker.
“If someone could snap a
photo or a quick video showing
the perpetrator that’d be enor-
mously helpful to law enforce-
ment,” said Joseph Giacalone,
a criminal justice professor at
John Jay College of Crimi-
nal Justice and a retired police
detective.
San Bernardino, Califor-
nia, rolled out its text-to-911
service in December about
two weeks after an attack at a
social services center where a
married couple killed 14 peo-
ple at a holiday gathering.
In New Hampshire, where
text-to-911 service is available
statewide, Democratic Gov.
Maggie Hassan said it was a
“common-sense initiative that
will help save lives.”
Text-to-911 service also has
been used by deaf and hard-of-
hearing people to get in touch
with police.
A deaf woman in
Alpharetta, Georgia, texted
police to report there were two
children locked in a car in a
shopping mall parking lot, and
police rescued them.
Authorities say 911 texting,
like its phone counterpart, has
also been abused.
Last year, a teenage girl
texted 911 to falsely report
there was a shooter at a high
school in Marietta, Georgia,
said police, who arrested her at
her home an hour later.
Divided: ‘The urban-rural split this year is larger than anything we’ve ever seen’
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Town and country
There are few divides in the
United States greater than that
between rural and urban places.
Town and country represent not
just the poles of the nation’s
two political parties, but differ-
ent economic realities that are
transforming the 2016 presi-
dential election.
Cities are trending Dem-
ocratic and are on an upward
economic swing, with growing
populations and rising property
values. Rural areas are increas-
ingly Republican, shedding
population and suffering eco-
nomically as commodity and
energy prices drop.
“The urban-rural split this
year is larger than anything
we’ve ever seen,” said Scott
Reed, a political strategist for
the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce who has advised previ-
ous GOP campaigns.
While plenty of cities still
struggle with endemic pov-
erty and joblessness, a report
from the Washington-based
Economic Innovation Group
found that half of new business
growth in the past four years
has been concentrated in 20
populous counties.
“More and more economic
activity is happening in cities
as we move to higher-value ser-
vices playing a bigger role in
the economy,” said Ross Devol,
chief researcher at the Milken
Institute, an independent eco-
nomic think tank. “As econo-
mies advance, economic activ-
ity just tends to concentrate in
fewer and fewer places.”
That concentration has
brought a whole host of new
urban problems — rising
inequality, trafic and worries
that the basics of city life are
increasingly out of the reach of
the middle class. Those fears
inform Democrats’ emphasis
on income inequality, wages
and pay equity in contrast to
the general anxiety about eco-
nomic collapse that comes
from Republicans who repre-
sent an increasingly desperate
rural America.
Colorado’s example
These two different eco-
nomic worlds are writ large in
Colorado. It is among the states
with the greatest economic gap
between urban and rural areas,
according to an Associated
Press review of EIG data.
The state’s sprawling met-
ropolitan areas from Denver
to Colorado Springs is known
as the Front Range. As it has
grown to include nearly 90 per-
cent of the state’s population, it
has trended Democratic. Rural
areas, which have become
more Republican, resent Den-
ver’s clout. In 2013, a rural
swath of the state unsuccess-
fully tried to secede to create its
own state of Northern Colorado
after the Democratic-controlled
statehouse passed new gun
control measures and required
rural areas to use renewably
generated electricity.
In Denver, City Council-
man Rafael Espinoza elected to
Denver’s last year as part of a
group of candidates question-
ing the value of Denver’s run-
away growth. Espinoza has
seen his neighborhood of mod-
est bungalows occupied by
largely Latino families trans-
formed into a collection of con-
dominiums housing afluent
professionals.
“Money just drives the dis-
cussion. In the presidential,
Bernie Sanders was my guy for
that one reason,” Espinoza said.
In contrast, Bill Hendren is
desperate for money. He has
about $4 in coins in a plastic
cup he keeps in the cottage on a
small farm where he lives, rent-
free. Hendren’s truck was sto-
len 18 months ago and he was
unable to travel to perform the
odd jobs in Otero County that
kept him aloat. He’s now func-
tionally homeless and a Trump
backer.
“I don’t ever see a president
caring about anyone who’s liv-
ing paycheck to paycheck
— if they did they’d have
put the construction people
back to work,” Hendren said.
“Trump’s got the elite scared
because he doesn’t belong to
them.”
If bad luck and geogra-
phy conspired to impoverish
Bill Hendren, it’s an excess
of money that’s to blame for
Robin Sam’s plight. Sam,
62, left one apartment count-
ing on moving into another
one being built in the rapid-
ly-gentrifying and historically
black neighborhood where
he grew up. But that facility
raised its rent over the thresh-
old of Sam’s $1,055 Section 8
voucher, and he’s been living
in a homeless shelter all year,
unable to ind a new place in
Denver’s iercely competitive
housing market.
“I feel like I’m being pushed
out,” said Sam, who is black.
He recalls houses and apart-
ments being barred to blacks
in his youth decades ago, but
senses something else at play
now.
“It’s money — and money
changes everything,” he said.
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