Police to Ignore Burglar Alarms

Police in a well-to-do California town say because of money problems they will begin ignoring most burglar alarms because the majority of them are false alarms anyway. Freemont Police Chief Craig Steckler said of the 7,000 calls his department responded to last year, only 66 of them were actual burglaries. He said it cost the city $600,000 a year to respond to false alarms.