“ANYONE who was in this chain of failures needs to be FIRED....TODAY! And maybe SUED!”
Police agencies are not set up to take action on crimes that might be committed. They react to crimes. That’s how they are designed. They probably get lots of calls, most from crazy people. My neighbor, who had sued me twice, called the Sheriff at least twenty times with hysterical claims. My lawyer told me that eventually there would be a new deputy who would believe him and I’d get arrested. That was one of the reasons I moved. (The next owner of my house lasted a little over six months and then he moved.)
The point is, if people can cause trouble by simply calling in a complaint that you might do something violent then swatting will be a daily occurrence. (Swatting is when somebody calls in a false 911 call resulting in a SWAT break-in at somebody’s house or business.)
Everyone is angry about what happened and the FBI is taking the brunt of that anger. Unfairly, I think.
Except the calls to the FBI were not crazy calls - they were accurate calls which they chose to ignore. A simple phone call to the Broward police would have notified them of the constant calls to his house. The FBI has problems which need to be sort out pronto.
Then why are we constantly told “if you see something, say something?”
I think there is something that can be done.
Though part of your point is not lost on me. Still, these are trying times, these are awful crimes.
Let’s say the FBI really did something about this Cruz shooter instead of trying to impeach Trump.
They probably couldn’t arrest him but I’m thinking they could have told the kid he’s being watched, then notify the school and local cops to watch the guy.
There has to be a way to handle this without violating the constitution or breaking the law.
Else tell them to stop telling us to say something if we see something.
Instead they should say “If you see something, don’t say anything. We can’t do a thing about it.”
The FBI isn’t a normal police department, it WAS supposed to investigate the threats, and nowadays ANY police department will react to ANY threats or tips about a possible school shooter.
>>Police agencies are not set up to take action on crimes that might be committed. They react to crimes.
Obviously, they can’t arrest people for thinking about committing a crime. But the FBI is unique in that it is not just a LE organization. It is also the premier crime data collection and behavioral profiling organization in America. It isn’t their job to “take action” prior to a crime, but it is their job to analyze and understand the full nature of crimes that are repeated in this country. If some Analyst is in DC saying, “Wow. My trends predicted a month ago that Cruz would do this! This is gonna look great on my evaluation!”, then we have a problem. Likewise, if they can’t make connections that the average FReeper has already made, then we have a bigger problem.
If the FBI is just a typical cop shop, then they need to be disbanded and their powers given back to state and local LE.
“Unfairly, I think.”
Maybe so.
But we should still use the situation to our advantage.
We don't understand that anymore. We want "authority" to do something.
I think it is because women refuse to let their husbands have that role in the family anymore.
Women would rather have big government and outside "authority" as their helpmate rather than acknowledge a husband's authority.