NYC Finally Gets Around To Planning For E911

Back in April we had the story of how police departments in NYC had been wasting all the money they collected for the E911 service on other things like “dry cleaning bills, ballpoint pens, travel… and winter boots.” Now that the deadline is coming perilously close, NYC has finally decided it’s time to get their act together and have hired a firm to install the E911 service to help locate emergency callers from their mobile phones. Took them long enough, didn’t it? Of course, to pay for such services lcoal governments need more money


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