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Because if the tip is non-anonymous, the person making it is automatically the only known suspect. It's not the difference between anonymous tip and non-anonym
by logfromblammo 7y ago
Because if the tip is non-anonymous, the person making it is automatically the only known suspect.
It's not the difference between anonymous tip and non-anonymous tip, but between anonymous tip and no tip at all, because no one wants to be punished for doing the right thing.
Remember Richard Jewell from the Atlanta Olympics?
- xiphias2 7y agoIt's so sad, but that's why I wrote that protection of the person who called in is crucial. But with cases like this I understand why people don't trust the police with reporting bombs.
- logfromblammo 7y agoSome people don't trust the police with anything at all. They aren't wrong. Federal circuit judges and the Supreme Court have ruled that police have no duty to protect anyone in particular. They routinely suffer no meaningful negative consequences for serious failures in their work, including killing people who are unarmed, not resisting, and not suspected of committing any crime. And after the Boston police screwed up the Mooninite promotion for Cartoon Network in 2007... well, it's enough to say that Turner had to pay for and publicly apologize for the police response to their fancy LED-illuminated handbills--absolutely Kafkaesque. If I ever find a suspicious package, I'll certainly alert bystanders to retreat. I'll pull the firm alarm on my way out. I'll call the firefighters. I'll call the local newspaper and television station newsrooms. I might even call the triage nurse at the nearest ER. But someone else can be the one to call the cops.