It happens all the time. The world is a very big place and not everyone is exposed to it. There’s plenty of adults who have a huge bias against cannabis, many of those have never seen, smelled, or sampled any before
Policies vary on this place to place, and of course there’s no accounting for police who don’t bother to follow the policies
But as a current dispatcher.
Yes, people do call about that. I went into some more detail on that in my other comment.
Phone calls are only half of what we do, we’re also the ones on the radio with the field units. If they pull a traffic or pedestrian stop, they call it in to us over the radio so we can check their status, send backup, run information for them, etc. because if we don’t know they’re out on, for example, a traffic stop and something happens, we otherwise wouldn’t know about it until it’s too late. They give us a short disposition at the end of the call- if someone was cited, parties advised to separate, they turned the music down, crowd dispersing, subject in custody, etc. We don’t get all the details, we don’t get their full reports or anything, but we have a pretty good general overview of the outcome.
Do you think people call 911 to report someone smoking pot? I doubt that has happened since the 90s.
What happens on the street during police encounters and what people call you about are not the same thing.
It happens all the time. The world is a very big place and not everyone is exposed to it. There’s plenty of adults who have a huge bias against cannabis, many of those have never seen, smelled, or sampled any before
Policies vary on this place to place, and of course there’s no accounting for police who don’t bother to follow the policies
But as a current dispatcher.
Yes, people do call about that. I went into some more detail on that in my other comment.
Phone calls are only half of what we do, we’re also the ones on the radio with the field units. If they pull a traffic or pedestrian stop, they call it in to us over the radio so we can check their status, send backup, run information for them, etc. because if we don’t know they’re out on, for example, a traffic stop and something happens, we otherwise wouldn’t know about it until it’s too late. They give us a short disposition at the end of the call- if someone was cited, parties advised to separate, they turned the music down, crowd dispersing, subject in custody, etc. We don’t get all the details, we don’t get their full reports or anything, but we have a pretty good general overview of the outcome.
Paramedic x15 years. I have been called to a poison gas leak because someone’s dog got sprayed with a skunk.
Yes. I don’t think it; I know it. I actually took those calls.