Emergency Police Dispatcher Abuse

Florida Woman Calls 911 Three Times at McDonald's


Many radio and TV shows have ridiculed this woman for calling 911 when she was not served after paying for her food. There are two unaddressed issues mostly by the discussion. First she paid for food she did not get. The restaurant refused to refund her money. That is theft. Secondly Police dispatchers are not police officers. Many of them if not most are not trained in constitutional rights as police officers are trained. Often they make bad decisions on whether to send an officer or not. In this case they believed she was misusing their office. The dispatchers sent a patrol car. There are many instances when they abuse their power. They often ignore persons they believe to be mentally ill contrary to state and US laws. They often do corporations in the city favors by diverting the calls to officers who will not issue summonses for violations of city ordinances. So it is not as silly as the media portrays this. The media should study the abuses of dispatchers nationally to curb their abuses of citizen's rights.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0303091mcnugget1.html