Here in California, I’ve very sporadically and inconsistently ever gotten alerts on my phone, regardless of whether I had the alerts turned on or not, sometimes at inconvenient hours for things happening in other cities. (And even if they were happening in my city, the alert information was insufficient for me to do anything about it. A child/elderly person is missing, but I don’t know what they look like, even? What TF am I supposed to do with that information?) Seems like there’s a huge degree of control that local law enforcement agencies have over the system, but they’re also apparently totally incompetent in its use. Which just ends up making the whole system pretty useless.
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