So a citizen of another country, turned investigator, is the source of this???But a Canadian woman who saw the post looked up Carter’s Austin address, determined that it was near an elementary school, and called the police
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My $.02 is that we have degenerated into pursuing whatever comes in on the phone call. Our daughter, a police dispatcher, was telling us yesterday about a call that came in for MWAG (man with a gun). The description was that his shirt had ridden up, exposing the gun in a holster. They were getting ready to send an officer when the supervisor intervened and asked them what they planned to do when they got there. He called it off or we might be reading about that in this morning's paper. One of our neighbors had a son who rides a dirt bike around their house. Their neighbor kept calling police who responded and couldn't find anything illegal about what was happening. Finally the police threatened the reporting woman with arrest and now she goes to pay phones and makes the report anonymously. Police are still on occasion dispatched to the house. This one has been happening, on and off, for a couple of years.
My point is that it seems like too often, people with too much time on their hands, too little understanding of the laws and too much interest in other people's business are the catalysts for these situations because of their calls to police. It amazes that the patterns of bullying in the school that go on for years go unchallenged and yet a random comment on an online gaming site ends up like this - because a "citizen" report. Making the comment wasn't the smartest thing to do but if this is the level of zero tolerance that is going to be used, a lot more people are going to jail, too. It comes down to pro-active investigation of potential threats versus simply reacting to whatever comes in via the phone.
