“Except the calls to the FBI were not crazy calls “
My neighbor sounded totally convincing. You have to ask, how many calls of this nature do they get? Of those, how many are false or even delusional? The FBI and every police agency are buried in real crimes that have already been committed. How many murders are solved? How many break-ins result in an arrest? How many of those result in a conviction? Unless you know the person calling in and have a history of good information from that person, how do you evaluate the call?
Perhaps things could have been done, but when you take a call like that and you have your boss beating on you to do something on his agenda list, what do you do? Especially when you might have taken twenty of those calls and none of them panned out...
Hind sight it awesome. But most agencies are buried in and totally committed to resolving crimes that have already happened.
and then you have swatting.
Because you had a bad experience doesn’t mean the FBI behaved well in this circumstance. Clearly, they did not.
The FBI has a huge, multi-billion dollar counter-intelligence division. The FBI failed at 9/11, Ft. Hood, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Parkland, and tried to overthrow a duly elected President. This is “counter-intelligence?”
Stop making excuses for a bloated, politicized, dangerous, and failed organization.
Gee... And I was beginning to think they dropped the ball on the Boston Bombers, Fort Hood etc. Now I know they were just swamped with other stuff. And, again, there is such a demand to investigate the Rooskie Facebook farmers that, well, shit happens in the schools. (I guess I can imagine a blatant net threat being ignored as to take up too much time to pass the info to the local branch.) /sarc