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No other country in the world makes emergency calls public, I dont see why US calls are.
by rb808 7y ago
No other country in the world makes emergency calls public, I dont see why US calls are.
- peteretep 7y agoAmerican police are absurdly trigger-happy compared with other rich countries[0], maybe this helps counter that? 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
- darkpuma 7y agoWhat happens when you adjust those figures for something like differences in private gun ownership rates between populations? It seems obvious that America has the most guns, and that having so many more guns than anybody else probably causes a dramatic increase in the number of justifiable homicides police are involved in.
- cabaalis 7y agoI don't know about other countries, but it's probably an extension of the overall American feeling of government in general: "Okay, I put you in office and will allow you to run certain parts of my life. But remember that I pay your salary, and that everything you have in that fancy office belongs to me." Recordings held on hard drives fall under that "everything in that fancy office belongs to me" line of reasoning.
- efdee 7y agoIn almost every company, the person you can talk to when you feel threatened or are for some other reason panicking will very explicitly not automatically pass on this information to whoever is paying his salary. This is a weird reasoning (but I realise you might just be iterating the reasoning rather than agreeing to it).