Pittsburgh's Bureau of Police is addressing staffing shortages by not having officers present in dispatch offices from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. daily.
Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto made the decision as the city's Bureau of Police has been reduced to just 740 officers.
Chief Scirotto clarified that officers will not be dispatched to 911 calls unless they involve ongoing emergencies, regardless of when the calls are received.
This move effectively means that reports of criminal mischief, theft, harassment, and burglary alarms, among others, will be managed by the telephone reporting unit or online reporting system.
This is why you should never let politicians scare you into giving up your Second Amendment rights piece by piece.
In 2013 Jim Stauffer’s mother, Doris, sadly passed away after suffering from dementia.
Following her death, Jim chose to donate her brain to scientific research, hopeful that this contribution could advance the quest for a cure to the disease.
Jim Stauffer completed a form granting permission for medical research on his mother's body.
Additionally, he indicated his preference by selecting an option that excluded military, traffic safety, and other non-medical experiments.
Less than two weeks later, Jim received the cremated remains of his mother, unaware of the specifics regarding how her body had been utilized.
However, the Biological Resource Center had actually just cremated one of Doris Stauffer’s hands and then sent that back to Jim.
According to Reuters, the company sold and dispatched the remaining portion of her body to a taxpayer-funded research initiative for the U.S. Army.
Her brain was never utilized for Alzheimer's research. Instead, Stauffer's body became involved in an Army experiment aimed at assessing damage inflicted by roadside bombs.
Subsequently, it was revealed that what occurred to him had occurred to numerous other families as well.
In 2019, a civil jury awarded $58million to 10 plaintiffs who sued body donation facility Biological Resource Center in Arizona.
In 2014, the Biological Resource Center was closed down following an FBI raid, which uncovered severed heads in buckets, penises in coolers, and dismembered body parts lacking proper identification.