For later.
This can’t be true....really?
I used to be a cop in an upper middle class suburb of Cincinnati. The citizens voluntarily gave a copy of their house keys to the P.D. whicher were kept under lock and key. Lots of elderly residents. Whenever someone had not heard from “Mom” or “Dad” or “Grandma” or “Grandpa” in over a week they’d call the P.D. and we’d grab the key and go check up on them.
Usually, all it ook was opening the door, getting a whiff of “that stench” and closing the door and calling the Coronor’s office.
But, once in awhile, it saved a life. I responded to an elderly woman who had her artificial hip come dislodged from her pelvis while she was int eh shower. The neighbors her her screams of pain and I was able to respopnd with the key and render aid.
When I was living up in Ann Arbor in my youth I rented an apartment with my friend for a couple of years. His father came over for dinner one night and he saw the keys to my gun cabinet hanging in the lock. He told me that a lock really doesn’t do much to protect your guns if you leave the keys in it. I just looked at him and said “True, but I don’t have clean up the broken glass this way.” He thought about it for a second and then agreed completely with me.
My home has two sliding glass door-walls on the downstairs level. If someone was going to want in my home a big rock and a windup is all they need to gain instant access. Everything I really can’t replace I keep locked in my safe, anything else is just an inconvenience so long as my pets or family isn’t hurt. Now if I’m home and it happened, well, that’s a much different story.
Dear Garland City Council:
GFY and the Horse you rode in.
Warmest, Kindest Regards,
Hale
Apologies. I had to double check to make certain this wasn’t an Onion piece.
I would have thought this nonsense would have been tried in California long before it was ever tried in Texas.
Still, it would be good to get independent corroboration of this.
I found this on SwagIt.com (”Swagit Productions, LLC is a leading video production company specializing in providing streaming media solutions to radio and television stations, newspapers, magazines, local government agencies and other online entities. Swagit.com is the premier portal for such entities who want the ability to deliver, create, host, and broadcast live or on-demand audio/video content through the Internet. Our combined years of experience offers our customers the expertise, knowledge and product base in the fields of video production, composition, sales, networking, design and technical communications.”)
http://garlandtx.swagit.com/currentwin.php?refid=11142011-85
See “item 2” at the link.
I see the Knox Box system as a good ides;as a VOLUNTARY tool. The Knox Box is installed by a competent installer, with an alarm installed to sound any time it is opened. It also sounds at the office of the responding party.
The key to the boxes is kept in a locked box in the responding vehicle. Any time this box is opened, the alarm sounds at the control panel. As long as the person in charge is honest there is no harm.
On the other hand, requiring it’s use is an abhorrent abuse of power.