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To: zencycler

I understand that. If someone called the police and said they spotted a child wearing corduroys or with a chocolate milk mustache, would the police be obliged to investigate?


80 posted on 02/12/2018 3:05:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I said the standard for investigation is lower than the standard for determination ... I didn’t say there is NO standard, or virtually no standard, as is the case in the examples you cited.


94 posted on 02/12/2018 5:17:09 PM PST by zencycler
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To: nickcarraway

Hence my gripe here is not with the police, but with the onlookers who I think should stop acting like the whole world is a NYC subway where you can’t talk to or even make eye contact with the people around you.

Absent any actions that would cause a reasonable person to fear retaliation, they should have first approached the family and said - pardon me, I’m concerned about your child, is everything ok? - then, after that, if they still had concerns (which they likely would not, in this case), they could have made a more informed decision about calling the police.


95 posted on 02/12/2018 5:25:02 PM PST by zencycler
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