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the amount of property damage and risk of death that comes from just a single phone call is honestly terrifying.
by dmonitor 3y ago
the amount of property damage and risk of death that comes from just a single phone call is honestly terrifying.
- Supermancho 3y agoThe alternative is a dystopian slippery slope. ie Please press 4 if you think they have a weapon.
- rdlw 3y agoThe current situation is literally the BOTTOM of a slippery slope.
- pessimizer 3y ago"Make an anonymous phone call if you would like the state to murder someone!" Of course totalitarians want to solve it by making sure no one can make an anonymous phone call.
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- dymk 3y agoCrazy opinion, but I don't think someone should be able to call in an emergency where a SWAT team might show up, without having that be tracked back to you. This isn't the state proactively keeping tabs on its citizens, it's asking for traceability when somebody initiates an action that might put lives at risk.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoit's clearly an "anything but reducing cop presence and power" strategy and cover
- zirgs 3y agoIt's possible to call emergency numbers without a SIM card. So the caller could use a disposable dumb phone that he bought on a flea market or whatever. The best info the cops could get would be the approximate location of the caller. Good luck with that.
- dymk 3y agoGood luck with what? If a call can’t be authenticated, don’t send deadly force.
- Supermancho 3y agoThe expectation that an emergency can be signaled from a single phone call is reasonable (barely one step up from shouting "help"). Objecting the resulting behavior of the emergency response is not relevant to the predictably effective practice.
- mike_hock 3y agoReport burglary in progress > Sign in with Google > Sign in with Facebook > Create an account
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoWhen SWAT was first instituted, the idea was that it would only be used for high-stakes situations. The Grubulanese Liberation Army has taken 33 hostages at the First Asshole Bank, and are threatening to kill one every 10 minutes until their demands are met. Now SWAT teams are used to serve warrants in residential neighborhoods.
- krustyburger 3y agoThe funny thing is even in that sort of hostage scenario, they’re much better off sending Jack Slater in instead of a SWAT team.
- Vecr 3y agoWho's that? Obviously the Hostage Rescue Team exists, but most hostage situations don't last for days and getting a specific group of people across the country to the scene is harder than getting a team there that's already in the city.
- dylan604 3y agoAre they really sending in the actual SWAT, or are the regular cops just now so well armed and body armored up they look like SWAT to civies?
- themitigating 3y agoWhat's the difference?
- dylan604 3y agoa whole lot of difference, and it's sad you even have to ask. actual cops dressed up don't actually have the training SWAT does. everyone forgets the And Tactics part of the acronym and just focuses on special weapons part, but street cops aren't going to have those tactics. they're just going to have big gun with armor and giant egos and possibly scared shitless and prone to make mistakes.
- pessimizer 3y agoCops don't kill people, phone calls kill people.
- wahnfrieden 3y agothe police who enter homes and shoot, are each individual humans carrying out the act