(February 21, 2019 at 4:30 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 21, 2019 at 4:11 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: I'd actually be alarmed if anyone I worked for told me to not call 911 "no matter what." Just seems creepy. Having security doesn't put you above the law, regardless of how nice your organization is. Sounds shady as fuck.
I've worked in a few environments in which there was a designated person who decided whether to call the police or not.
Places of worship can be a bit uptight about police being called because of the tradition of sanctuary. In the US, there is no right of sanctuary, and churches can't harbor criminals. But a lot of church people don't agree with that, and think the church should still be a place of refuge. And churches have actively harbored a lot of people from illegal immigrants in our times, to runaway slaves in the mid 19th century. It doesn't really surprise me that a baptist church is uptight about it police entering the sanctuary.
In the synagogues that I have belonged to there was no problem with calling the police. But that's in the US where we trust the cops quite a bit. In one, we even had panic buttons distributed throughout the building, and all regular members were expected to memorize the location of each one.
I understand where you're coming from but if a place told me not to call 911, I would be alarmed. There's no way I'm going to wait for someone else's permission to call 911 or leave it up to them to do so. If I see a fire or an emergency I'm calling 911 - fire me if you have to.
It makes it sound like they have something to hide and I'm not comfortable with that. I've also worked in situations with high security concerns, etc. and have never heard of a place having a policy like this.
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