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The City of Pittsburgh is trying "The Purge" out in real life daily from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:17 pm
No police officers at any station from 3-7 a.m.
ALL thefts, harassment, criminal mischief, burglary alarms, etc. at any time will be handled by an automated machine.
Let's see how this works out for them.
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ETA: To the "staffing shortage" issue, in the video they say Pittsburgh has 740 officers on the payroll, but only 20 will be working between 3-7 a.m.
ALL thefts, harassment, criminal mischief, burglary alarms, etc. at any time will be handled by an automated machine.
Let's see how this works out for them.
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BREAKING: Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to certain calls & will instead be redirecting people to a telephone unit.
Those crimes include thefts, harassment, criminal mischief, burglary alarms, etc.
Additionally, there were be only 20 police officers patrolling the ENTIRE CITY from 3AM-7AM. This comes amidst staffing shortages.
ETA: To the "staffing shortage" issue, in the video they say Pittsburgh has 740 officers on the payroll, but only 20 will be working between 3-7 a.m.
This post was edited on 3/10/24 at 10:46 pm
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:18 pm to The Pirate King
New Orleans has been doing this for ages
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:18 pm to The Pirate King
That telephone unit is a direct line to a social worker.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:19 pm to The Pirate King
May not be best to publicly announce which crimes you won't be responding to.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:20 pm to The Pirate King
Great thing for the city to advertise on the nightly news
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:23 pm to The Pirate King
I wish my town would do this…..I need a weed eater and a chainsaw
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:23 pm to Neauxla_Tiger
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May not be best to publicly announce which crimes you won't be responding to.
Listen, if you're being harassed or stolen from, it can wait until regular bankers hours.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:23 pm to The Pirate King
Hopefully some of the good people use this to their advantage and take out the trash


Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:26 pm to HoboDickCheese
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Hopefully some of the good people use this to their advantage and take out the trash

Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:28 pm to Kafka


This post was edited on 3/10/24 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:37 pm to The Pirate King
In reality, a lot of jurisdictions operate like this unofficially.
Someone breaks into your house? Police will be there in a couple of hours.
Someone breaks into your house? Police will be there in a couple of hours.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:39 pm to The Pirate King
“Someone’s trying to murder you?… ok we will leave a message and when the day shift crew gets in they will follow
Up. Good luck !”
Up. Good luck !”
This post was edited on 3/11/24 at 9:12 am
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:40 pm to The Pirate King
“If the US got an enema, the hose would be stuck in Pittsburgh” is now [true] / false.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:43 pm to Dadren
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In reality, a lot of jurisdictions operate like this unofficially. Someone breaks into your house? Police will be there in a couple of hours.
Well in this case, sounds like the police will never come. It will all be handled by an automated machine, including the filing of the police report.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 10:50 pm to The Pirate King
Did a week long training in Pittsburgh back some time around 2007 or so. One day after the class finished, I drove into Pittsburgh to find some food. Not one single business was open downtown. A culinary school was letting out and all the students were catching the bus and leaving. Finally found a pub near the baseball stadium. Next day, two guys from Pittsburgh were shocked I went into Pittsburgh after dark.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 11:49 pm to X123F45

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New Orleans has been doing this for ages
They doing this now during working hours. I called their main number several times and no one picks up. You have to call 911 to report a crime. Even then, you lucky if they show up within 12 hours.
This post was edited on 3/10/24 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 3/11/24 at 5:51 am to root
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Did a week long training in Pittsburgh back some time around 2007 or so. One day after the class finished, I drove into Pittsburgh to find some food. Not one single business was open downtown. A culinary school was letting out and all the students were catching the bus and leaving. Finally found a pub near the baseball stadium. Next day, two guys from Pittsburgh were shocked I went into Pittsburgh after dark.
Your first mistake was looking by PNC for food. You needed to go over to the Strip District, just east of downtown. That's where the food scene in Pittsburgh is centered.
And Pittsburgh is a very underrated food town.
Posted on 3/11/24 at 6:05 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Lived there for 5 years. Much safer than nola.
Now you go to the rock bottoms and walk in the wrong bar. That's a diff story.
Downtown shuts down after 6pm. PNC park is on the Northside. Nobody really lives downtown or by the stadiums on the northside. A few lofts bout it. And heinz ketchup. Southside and mt washington is the closest to downtown with action.

Now you go to the rock bottoms and walk in the wrong bar. That's a diff story.
Downtown shuts down after 6pm. PNC park is on the Northside. Nobody really lives downtown or by the stadiums on the northside. A few lofts bout it. And heinz ketchup. Southside and mt washington is the closest to downtown with action.
This post was edited on 3/11/24 at 6:09 am
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