Many agencies like to proclaim that they "keep the city safe". Do they really? Lets look at that question.
1. What would happen if the public safety agencys were completely shut down? FDs would be replaced by VFDs. PDs would be replaced by neighborhood watches. Ambulances would be replaced by taxis or pickup trucks. (this is the extreme case) 2. Lets look at Boston. How many homes are in Boston? Maybe 200,000? How many have real fires each day? Maybe 1? How many business are in Boston? Maybe 50,000? How many are robbed every day? Maybe 5? How many people are in Boston on a week day? Maybe 1 million? How many have a serious medical emergency (that would require more than a taxi)? Maybe 3 per hour? As you can see, the city is pretty damn safe on its own. Very few people receive useful help from public safety agencys on a daily basis. You can see that public safety agencies might have a tough time justifying their budgets. Are they providing a real bang for the buck? If they can be relatively easily replaced - and they are not providing any sort of useful service on a daily basis for the most majority of people - what is the future for the citys public safety agencies? Maybe they should start to aggressively publicize every arrest made; every minor fire suppressed; every code violation found; every serious EMS call handled. Or they should start to interrupt more crimes in progress, save more CPR cases, or save more babys from fires. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
