Another year, another type of medium for PCR writing, another piece of software.
One thing I’ve noticed at different agencies, no matter how data are gathered, is that the options provided to us for location data never include the truly applicable. For instance, there would be such no-brainer selections as “residence” or “grocery store” or “office” but there are other way more specific locations that generate far more emergency responses that are never listed.
Just to name a few:
- payphone (by far the most under-appreciated location as far as data collection is concerned)
- bus stop
- subway/train station
- liquor/convenience store
- shelter
- rehab
- homeless encampment
- gas station
- airport
- doctors’ office/clinic/dialysis center
- sidewalk
- someone’s front lawn
- someone’s back yard
- someone’s doorway
- in a car
- on a bus
- parking lot
Can you think of any others?
