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Does FOIA data include how many calls the police don't pick up? I've literally never gotten an answer when calling my local PD's non-emergency number

Assume you could get the raw phone log including non answers. I thought they had voice mailboxes?

LAPD doesn't. Although I've since learned that supposedly the trick is to call their Spanish non-emergency number since all the operators are bilingual anyways and there's lower call volume.

When it's widely perceived that the police don't care about property crime, people don't call the police in the first place.

Case in point: https://www.wlbt.com/2022/04/21/residents-say-jpd-dispatcher...

This is backwards. Do you have data to prove that police are responding to all stolen property reports?

How is this backwards? Person made a claim that the government provided data is inaccurate. You can't make those claims unless you provide data.

No, they very specifically wrote:

> When the cops don’t show up to take a report it doesn’t show up in crime report statistics.

This is accurate. You appear to be arguing that the reporting is commensurate with actual crime. You haven't provided any evidence of that.