Indeed I could see that in different regions of a large state or the country. Perhaps the answer is ... former employee national databases?

Maybe data center companies buy out all the housing within a 10 mile radius and build 100 data centers there?

But, somehow , repatriating manufacturing to the west is a) racist, or b) impossible, per the left.

Yes but nobody wants to face the answer - nations need to do their own tech. "But, its more expensive!" OK. Do you want security?

Yet the prevention of this is trivial: DO NOT HAVE IT ON THE INTERNET. Personally I'd rather take the risk of failures than have a Orwellian horror even worse than we have. So much for "Land of Hope and Glory," UK.

Unlikely. Why? Lawsuits. Police departments hate lawsuits. And if an officer gets fired, especially for something like this, it's unlikely they'd be rehired. Well maybe in a cesspool like Illinois, but not in America. The only people who gossip more than "washerwomen" (as my mother used to say), are cops.

No, "they" didn't vote for it. But I have never met a Democrat who didn't want more invasive government intrusion everywhere.

His "How to keep your *ss from being beat by the police" was epically good.

Of course it does, because despite the left bleating to the contrary, fascism and socialism are the same thing: state control over everything, your money, your property (though it won't be your money or your property), your private life, and so on.

Indeed. Of course, folks who make the comments to which you were responding never think THEY should have to pay more, or indeed, anything. It's always everyone _else_ who should pay.

Getting paid more would be nice. Ultimately, though, I think you hit the nail on the head: There's relatively few people who can take the stress of dispatch. I've been on the street as police, fire, and EMS (at different times) and I'd take that over dispatch any day. Why? Well, first responders tend to deal with one situation at a time - and in the case of a fire, these situations can last quite some time. In dispatch? You're dealing with wildly different crises every five or fewer minutes. You're dispatching police, fire, and EMS units. The lives of the people who called in AND those who you are dispatching are in your hands. it's incredibly stressful. And, to be honest, with the social decay in American society there are fewer and fewer felons who can take jobs requiring public trust.

That isn't really true. Their pay, while not great, is above the middle for the areas they are in. It's ALWAYS been a critical service. Perhaps if you didn't live in a blue state, you would realize that.

There's no 'allegedly' about it. This has been case law for several decades. This was stressed to me when I was in the police academy; your job is to keep society running, not respond to individual issues. Fortunately, they usually coincide. Sad, but true. Having been extremely poor, my thought is that IF this targets poor communities, it won't matter as much as if it was in rich communities. Poor folks do not call the cops. I know I never did, nor did anyone I knew.

In NOLA? The entire city is a dumpster fire. What would you know, anyway, you don't even live in the USA.

Be careful of the folder marked 'private.'