Article for Medill: False alarms cost police
Glenview Police responded to 2,706 false alarms from Jan. 1 to Nov. 16 of this year, endangering officers by conditioning them to expect all alarms to be false, Commander Don Hohs of the Glenview Police Department said Monday. The 2,706 false alarms were 3.2 percent more than the number of false alarms that occurred in …