Assuming that his statistic is true [[and I believe him), I agree with this.

If 98% of alarms are false, then we need to stop responding to them. Yeah, we could do something like fine them, but then you have to have people dedicated to collecting fines, etc...

I listen to Warren's police scanner for about 3-4 hours a day and most of the time alarms [[both fire and police) are false.

Warren has the resources to respond. Detroit doesn't.