“…The city has filed 37 lawsuits in recent weeks — with at least 13 more pending — against the most egregious offenders, seeking thousands of dollars in unpaid fines and hoping to send a message about fixing alarms that 
waste police time and cost taxpayer dollars…”
More than 40 times since 2008, Louisville Metro Police Department officers have made emergency runs to the Taco Bell on East Broadway, only to find they were responding to a false alarm.
Under a policy enacted in June 2005 that aims to crack down on residents and businesses who have multiple false alarms, the city has fined the Taco Bell — repeatedly — up to $500 per false alarm.
But the restaurant, like some others, has not paid its fines, which now total $10,700, according to city records.
Before police began charging fees for false burglary and hold-up alarms in 2005, officers were responding to more than 40,000 false alarms a year, Gibson said. Since then, that number has fallen dramatically, with less than 20,000 false alarm runs through October of this year.
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