• @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    553 months ago

    Someone calls an emergency number and says “My husband has a knife and he’s threatening to kill me!”

    Should the operator say “nothing we can do until you provide provide me with some evidence, ma’am” ?

    • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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      213 months ago

      Lmao the cops take four hours to send someone then say she was just being dramatic in that scenario

      • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        53 months ago

        Well the cops might be taking pics of a dead body the next day. So then they could say “yeah we probably should’ve responded to that one last night, but we just couldn’t risk that it might’ve been one of the 0.01% of these calls where it turns out it’s an internet swatting thing.”

        • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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          -73 months ago

          Yep. I guess there are no other possible methods of conducting a police investigation than your suggested method. Pack it in, boys. Space Cowboy’s got it all figured out for us!

            • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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              13 months ago

              Here’s an extremely easy one. When in doubt, just knock on the goddamned door and talk with someone instead of kicking the door in, tossing flash-bangs and jamming rifles in people’s faces. Knock… and talk. SWAT shouldn’t be entering unless there’s a barricaded suspect.

              • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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                13 months ago

                The first thing is what they did. They knocked on the door, they spoke. At one point he was detained when they had a look about and then they apologised and left.

                There was no SWAT (this is Germany so technically it would be a SEK team I guess), there was no flashbangs (why would police even have those?), there were no rifles in faces.

          • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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            33 months ago

            If someone’s in imminent danger sending police capable of protecting them from said danger seems like a reasonable idea

      • JackbyDev
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        123 months ago

        That’s how swatting works though. They don’t just call 911 and say “send police to this place” lol.