...So budgets went up, and usefulness continued to go down, and the people crying "it's because of the defund people!" continue to be liars. Exactly as I said. Neat? Thanks for the additional source I guess.

Also, fun fact about Austin. While they did officially cut police budgets in 2021, they put that extra money in a fund ("Decouple and Reimagine) designed to be used to move stuff to other areas but used for police business in 2021.

https://theaustinbulldog.org/did-austin-defund-the-police-here-are-the-numbers/

And where was that? I haven't seen a single major city that actually reduced police budgets. Tons of people talking about how "oh, they reduced police budgets and then needed police, ha ha!" but in literally every one of those cases (including this one, as San Fran increased its police budgets since 2019, https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/ ) the police budget went up and police usefulness continued to go down, and the "its because of defund!" was nothing but propaganda.

So which actual cities did this happen in?

Most likely there was a specific procedure, but the tech was never trained on it or the police didn't follow it, so they had to default to the standard one for a regular customer. Lots of call center techs literally don't have a choice in how to do their job, they have to follow the system because they cannot access information until they do.

The article says the owner is "a woman with a Pacific Grove, Calif. mailing address", so no, this guy doesn't own the property.