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In response to "Man, “how do you call 911 for someone in another town?” is a harder question for the internet to answer than I would have expected. -- nm" by Mop🧹

911.gov says to call the 10 digit number for the local police but that’s rarely list on the website. They usually just saY to call 911.

Posted by Mop🧹 (aka rburriel) Dec 22 '23, 23:02

Same source says that your local 911 can rarely route your call to another call center. But they also say that national hotlines like suicide prevention maintain a secret list of all the call centers nationwide so you’d think your local call center would have access to that list too, facilitating routing.

In a connected world such as ours, this seems like a gross oversight. One that should have been addressed decades ago.

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How do 'swatters' manage to send a squad of troops to someone's house calling from several states away? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 23, 02:06 1
- Phone number spoofing. -- nm - colin Dec 23, 08:13
It’s because America doesn’t do unified systems. Like everything is county level. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 23:24

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911.gov says to call the 10 digit number for the local police but that’s rarely list on the website. They usually just saY to call 911.

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