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I've often wondered why people don't publish names for people who send death threats. Would that help stop it? Is there a reason law enforcement doesn't want th
by fred_is_fred 8y ago
I've often wondered why people don't publish names for people who send death threats. Would that help stop it? Is there a reason law enforcement doesn't want them to do so?
- vernie 8y agoWhat if they used a pseudonym or somebody else's name?
- fred_is_fred 8y agoThat's probably the best reason. Even if tied to an email address that could be faked or hacked or just a throwaway.
- 394549 8y ago> I've often wondered why people don't publish names for people who send death threats. My guess is the threats are usually made anonymously-enough that that would be difficult to truly expose those who made them, and exposing them would also expose how pretty much all of them lack any credibility.
- fred_is_fred 8y agoThey don't need to be credible to ruin someone's life. If you talk to people this has happened to, they can't sleep, they end up moving, they stop leaving the house, etc etc. The perpetrators should be prosecuted as if they are all credible.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoA death threat doesn't lack credibility because it's anonymous. It doesn't necessarily lack credibility even because it reads like an obvious dimwitted trolling attempt. Sure, the vast majority of such threats aren't serious -- but it only takes one that turns out to be real.
- aw3c2 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching
- nitwit005 8y agoI'm sure people have mailed plenty death threat letters with fake return name/address to implicate someone else.