Well for one thing they wouldn’t make it a public service, it’d get contracted out to private call centers and you’d have to pay per call and they’d have a shitty AI asking you the details of the emergency instead of a human being.
That was what it used to be, you'd contract ambulance or fire services (or, in the 18th century, thieftakers) and they'd run out their own little cab. After they devolved into essentially rival gangs with a secondary protection racket everyone decided it might be better to unify these organisations.
Well for one thing they wouldn’t make it a public service, it’d get contracted out to private call centers and you’d have to pay per call and they’d have a shitty AI asking you the details of the emergency instead of a human being.
That was what it used to be, you'd contract ambulance or fire services (or, in the 18th century, thieftakers) and they'd run out their own little cab. After they devolved into essentially rival gangs with a secondary protection racket everyone decided it might be better to unify these organisations.