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Someone is breaking into my house. I'm hiding in my closet from the intruders. How do I get the police to come to my house and help me?

Another scenario: I'm a police officer and I'm on patrol. My dispatcher had someone come to the police station to tell them that they think their neighbor is experiencing a home invasion. Does the dispatcher just page me and I now drive back to the police station to verify and then drive back out to the home invasion?

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>Someone is breaking into my house. I'm hiding in my closet from the intruders. How do I get the police to come to my house and help me?

Lord, give me patience.

Call 911. The dispatcher broadcasts the problem over the radio, and a LEO responds. The dispatcher is a relay that verifies probable cause. The chain of human contact is unbroken between you, the 911 dispatcher, the LEO taking the call. The chain is not broken.

Compare this to a machine that spits out warrants, which are distributed to officers, who never even speak to anyone about the case, do not know the subject of the warrant, and simply execute the warrants.

From my above comment: > I think these conversations would need to be in person, since voice can already be faked.

We are also probably days away from video being trivial to fake.

How do you know it's a person answering the 911 call and not an AI?

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