Do you ever?

[Thirteen]

Call the non-emergency based police line in your area to:

-report people speeding through the neighborhood? (lots of children at play here)
-noise after 10pm? (parties parties everywhere)
-suspicious persons? (this hasn't happened yet, but I think I would)


*sigh* I'm a rat.

[houseelf]

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I've called the nonemergency line to request a patrol car to drive by on a call night when I heard strange noises outside. I figure that if they have to do routine patrol duty, they might as well do it near my house. :huh:

Kelly

[alison]

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I've called it to find out where to get fingerprints. Other than that, I call 911. We're in a big city, and things are usually more 911-worthy than 311...

[Vishenka69]

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I've called 311 back in NY for a number of things (noise complaints among them). Here I called police twice to complain about our neighbor's partying into the wee hours.

While house hunting, we've been stopped in a few neighborhoods to ask what we're doing there. :huh:

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Oh yes. I've called. Not in this neighborhood though. There were a lot of loud into the wee morning hour parties at our apartment complex in AZ (ASU 'nuff said). Oh wait! I have called here for teenagers driving too fast. We live on a military base. Come on! Where are the manners and respect my grandparents raved about?

My favorite though is when I called 911 because there was a suspicious man in a rain coat peering in people's houses and jumping over fences.

It was the water meter guy.

What can i say. First time I'd lived in an honest to God neighborhood for a while.

[Tenacious_D]

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When we lived in the Boston area we called the non emergency line on our neighbors who thought it was ok to play loud music at 6:30am on a Sunday morning . When the cops showed up they were like "What the hell are you guys thinking playing music this loud at 6 in the morning!!" It was a much safer bet than me going over there and destroying their stereo!

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although we once put in a request for a car to be towed after it had been street-parked poorly in front of our building for several weeks (accumulating a stack of parking tickets). Several more weeks later, they finally towed it. Like I said, low expectations.

that's one service I can guarantee you'll be more satisfied with if you end up in Cleveland Heights!

[DCJenn]

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I have called the non-emergency line a few times. We call the non-emergency line a lot from work when we have clients that we suspect are dealing.

Jenn

[GrayMatterWife]

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Oh, how stupid and uninformed am I?? I hadn't even ever HEARD of 311... I didn't know there was such a thing!

Clearly, I've never used it...

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I haven't for those reasons but I do report drivers who almost hit me when I am walking home...Philly is a rough city sometimes!