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If I lived there I'd get rid of my house alarm, it would be useless now. This is absolutely ridiculous... ***** That's Just a Burglar Alarm -- Ignore It! Thu Jan 9, 7:45 AM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in Los Angeles have settled on a new way of handling those pesky burglar alarms that take up so much of their time. They will now ignore them -- unless someone can prove that there is a genuine emergency. The change was approved at the request of chief William Bratton, who said that 92 percent of the alarms are false -- wasting time and money in a city struggling with gang violence, a spike in violent crime and a shortage of officers. The new policy allows officers to largely ignore alarms from automated systems that are not verified as genuine by a homeowner or security company -- calls which formerly required them to respond within an hour. They would respond immediately to alarms triggered by a human being and within 15 minutes if the automated calls were verified as genuine...
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