There are a number of contributing issues to the non-response threat, but the largest factor, by far, is false alarms. Authority agencies cite the waste of resources caused by false alarms and the new demands on their departments in the name of national security as their reasons for wanting to enact non-response policies.
When it comes to false alarms, all of us point in different directions as we try to shift blame to other sources. The fact is that your livelihood and my livelihood could be negatively impacted. If authority agencies in the market in which you install and monitor systems move to non-response in the next five years, what will your accounts be worth? How easy will it be to install new systems that will be more expensive and provide seemingly less security to the end-user? The time to take action and to make an effort to reduce false alarms is now.