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Amid the spike in calls over fevers and coughs, 30% of the city’s emergency medical services staff were out sick as of Wednesday.
This summer, the city launched a pilot program that enables 911 operators to dispatch teams led by social workers instead of police. But cops are still fielding 80% of the mental health calls.
The jazz musician Keyon Harrold is alleging that he and his 14-year-old son were racially profiled and assaulted this weekend at the Arlo, a boutique hotel in SoHo, by a woman who falsely claimed the teenage boy stole his iPhone.
The pilot would begin in February.
Officers later slapped the two individuals they searched with summonses for "disorderly conduct."
Are there even that many hours in a day?
'Police are taught to be commanding, and people like me, when we’re in crisis, we might not respond,' says Christina Sparrock. 'I’m going to do the opposite [of what they tell me to do] and end up getting hurt.'
The man made two bogus 911 calls claiming that his ex-wife was a terrorist bound for NYC.
Eighteen minutes passed between the time the victim's wife called and the time the ambulance arrived at the mall. Then it took even longer for the ambulance to get to the parking deck.
