Text-to-911 Saves Lives, but Data Suggests It Remains Rare

Government Technology: A man who was high on heroin and wanted by police came to his sister’s daycare center. A group of deaf people became stranded in the middle of a large lake when their boat’s motor died. A woman was kidnapped by a trucker at a rest stop, sexually assaulted and then left in the back of his cab as he drove.

These are all real stories, and in each situation the people involved either couldn’t call 911 or would have put themselves in jeopardy by doing so.

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