RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Whoever did this needs to be charged with attempted murder. You can’t expect that police get a report of a threat at a residence (like a bomb threat or a murder threat) and they show up without weapons. Shame police time and resources had to be wasted ruining this poor old woman’s Minecraft night.
I guess on the up side, not many 82 year olds can tell their friends that they are important enough to have so many people show up to their house so late at night.
Whoever did this needs to be charged with attempted murder.
Doing that would raise certain implications, and validate a lot of concerns people have with police in the USA. I don’t think that’s likely to happen.
They should be charged with something, but I’m sure there won’t become a legal case which confirms that the police is basically a blunt weapon that can be swung with a phone call.
Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.
This sounds like complete absurdity, even as a Canadian.
“There’s nothing we can do about it!” -says only country in the world where it regularly happens
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I think twenty cars is still too many
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If someone was shooting people, I would definitely want every officer in the local area to show up. The police can’t possibly know if its real or not until they show up, and even if they talked with the home owner before they arrive they still have to check to make sure.
While I sure wish they could just believe you if you said you weren’t a criminal or something, that’s exactly what a criminal would say. So they gotta treat it as real even if its fake. Truly a shame so many awful people have led to this, but it will only get worse as time goes on.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah I don’t disagree that they should go check it out with enough people but that’s, what, 40+ officers? To an incident supposedly involving two people? What are they all supposed to do? It’s just chaos and I don’t think they are helping the situation.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Police get a call about a person who has a gun, who already shot someone, and is threatening to kill himself. Logically speaking, a person that is erretic enough to report themselves like that isn’t likely far from the idea of deciding to shoot their neighbors or others in view too.
A person with a gun shooting even in the general direction of people, even if they don’t hit anything, is enough for me to say every officer in the area should be responding. If the first officers get there and become targets that are killed, more are showing up or are on the way. In a shooting situation it should be the goal of police to become the target being shot at instead of innocent civilians.
They can’t know if this kind of call is real or not, so they have to treat it like it is real. I would rather there be a few hours of chaos on a residential street for a false alarm by treating every report thsi seriously compared to something like the Ulvade school shooting happening again because police didn’t want to show up or were too scared to do their job.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 week ago
So they send every operative to one call and let the rest of the area without support if something happens. Haven’t they seen Die Hard 3?
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is. Cops are bored that time of night so anything like this gets blown outta proportion