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> All 911 calls are and should be taken seriously though. It depends what "taken seriously" means here. If it means followed-up upon in a rapid way to see if
by jMyles 7y ago
> All 911 calls are and should be taken seriously though.
It depends what "taken seriously" means here. If it means followed-up upon in a rapid way to see if there is any corroborating information to indicate that there's a real emergency, then sure.
If it means instead to suppose that any of the provided information is true tout court, then no, this is a recipe for ongoing disaster.
It's important to have a rapid, anonymous reporting system. It's also important to have auxiliary systems in place to verify information that comes in through this system.
- dmix 7y agoPlus a calm rational authoritative person on the ground who isn't in Captain America hero mode but instead expects verifiable and multi-sourced evidence that the situation requires escalation to extreme force. Rather than relying on his lackeys to observe for very lax rules of engagement based on some hyper-pessimistic risk models.
- jMyles 7y ago> Captain America hero mode I don't really follow the Marvel universe very closely outside of X-men, but isn't Captain America a figure who stands in contrast to government overreach, Nazism, police brutality, etc? I think of him as being a sort of left libertarian. I think we might actually need more Captain Americas in these situations, not less.
- JetSpiegel 7y ago> left libertarian What's a left libertarian? A liberal socialist? Those words are opposite.