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To be fair, there are innocent lives on both sides of the equation. This article only describes one side of it. A week later someone will post a story about how 911 never responds to calls in Detroit, and the comments will have the opposite message.

It's easy to say what should and should not be done in each individual case. It's hard to build a bureaucratic system that intelligently evaluates each case with all information available and consistently makes high-quality decisions.



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