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The Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting app, also known as LASAR, was unveiled in March 2023 and allows anyone to anonymously report nonemergencies and suspicious activity to the Los Angeles School Police Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024

A Seattle Times analysis in May found police were responding to drastically fewer dispatch calls, and that emergency response times were still up even though police had simply stopped going to some nonemergencies, including break-ins.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Because we can’t easily leave the house to see doctors for nonemergencies, we are largely left to figure this out on our own.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2020

The police phone line for nonemergencies has been overwhelmed with people calling to “dob in,” as we say here, reporting others they think are breaching the rules.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2020

While the association agrees in principle with reducing unnecessary ER use, he added in a statement, many conditions the state is calling nonemergencies could well be "life-threatening emergencies for infants and young children."

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2011