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One of the oddities of living in Canada is the authorities overuse the amber alert system for when a divorced couple have a fight and someone takes the kids off
by fidotron 3y ago
One of the oddities of living in Canada is the authorities overuse the amber alert system for when a divorced couple have a fight and someone takes the kids off in a hurry with no problem, but if someone is pretending to be a cop while shooting people and your actual cops are shooting up barns with innocent people hiding in then you're lucky if they Tweet about it. In fact two people died while they were getting permission to Tweet about it, but at least they weren't cops:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/canada-nova-scotia-mass-shooting-tweet-public-inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/canada-nova-sc...
- gwright 3y agoI noticed something similar while visiting Texas last year. We have an Amber alert in my home state but it is triggered maybe 3 times/year. When I was in Texas I received the alert 3 or 4 times in a couple of days. The people I was visiting seemed to think that was typical. It seemed to me that the alerts weren't very localized.
- gunapologist99 3y agoYes, they can be annoying, but Texas has a pretty big population, and kidnappers can travel pretty quickly. Law enforcement can't see everything, even if they have a "BOLO" (be on the lookout), but with millions of people on the roads, someone might spot the kidnapper's vehicle.) Issuing Amber Alerts sooner rather than later (or not at all) is optimal and the Amber Alert system in Texas has definitely resulted in some child rescues before those kids disappeared forever, especially if they have plate numbers or descriptions.
- neom 3y agoKeep in mind there are types of alerts that can be triggered, emergency alerts and public broadcast alerts, amber alerts etc. You can toggle on and off what you want in the setting of the phone. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202743 https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-amber-alerts-android-800435/ https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-amber-alert...