What lunacy is this?
Beginning Monday, Pittsburgh police won’t respond to any calls that aren’t in progress emergencies.
Chief Larry Scirotto wants to cut their call volume from approximately 200,000 calls per year down to about 50,000.
That essentially means that calls for criminal mischief, theft, harassment and burglary alarms, just to name a few, will all be handled by the telephone reporting unit or online reporting.
