• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Genuinely hard to do. Even if we ignore the problem of guns in the US (this also happens in the europe, for example).

    Emergency services kind of have to assume every call is real and act accordingly. In hostage and shooting situations there’s not really much time to debate the validity of the case, because if they delay and it was a real situation, they now are responsible for potentially more victims.

    The only real solution is that the forces need to arrive with the potential that it’s a fake call. But that’s easier said than done

    Oh, and prosecute the hell out of the callers. Which is not always possible, depending how energy they put into making the call anonymous

    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      they now are responsible for potentially more victims.

      No they are not. Multiple court cases have exonerated police for failing to respond or not responding quickly enough. See: Uvalde (among many others).

      They are trying to play it both ways: not responsible but also must respond in the most over-the-top aggressive manner possible.

            • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
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              5 days ago

              This story is about the U.S. and very distinct aspects of our society (notably our healthcare system and our policing), hence the context of my comment is about the U.S.

              Grandmothers in other nations would not have to live stream Minecraft to raise money for their grandchild’s cancer treatment.

              “Yabbut other nations” isn’t going to cut it here because you absolutely 100% know that it is irrelevant to the discussion.

                • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  5 days ago

                  I’m not talking about Europe though. I am talking about the U.S.

                  Even in your original comment, the part about Europe was an “aside” in parenthesis, not the main part of the comment. A footnote, as it were. We aren’t going to divert the conversation over a footnote when the actual article and main content of your comment outside the parenthesis pertains to the U.S.