To: Dianna
I think what is raising frustrations is the lack of information people are getting from the police. The telephone receptionists probably don't know whats in the letters and would not know how to authenticate these calls from the shooter based on the letters. Also, the part in the letter about shooting more children and then the police not telling the public is pissing some people off because a lot of people feel its up to the parents to decide what is safest for their children since the police or the teachers can't protect them. I agree. I think its socialist "we know whats best for your kids" B.S.
51 posted on
10/22/2002 10:35:43 PM PDT by
virgil
To: virgil
Yeah, they would waste time on a lot of crank calls if they engaged in conversations with everyone who said he was the shooter.
To: virgil
Yeah, they would waste time on a lot of crank calls if they engaged in conversations with everyone who said he was the shooter.
BUT! -- could they somehow set up a system that would tie the call in to a powerful computer that would look for a voice match, as best as possible, with the earlier known calls. Even with distortion applied, a match may still be possible (the computer models the distortion instrument and applies it to the incoming voice before doing the match). Then they would know what is a crank call and what is the shooter.
To: virgil
The sad part is that this may only be a test of our LE system. Our little friends in the ME might have hundreds of these guys on standby all over the country.
The only sure way to get this guy is to actively involve the community. When people start going around with cameras rather than hiding in their homes; when they start running towards the sound of the gun fire rather than away; only then will we be able to end this. We have a couple of snipers surrounded by millions of people. We can choose to behaive like cattle being led to slaughter, or, learn to fight back as a community.
58 posted on
10/23/2002 12:10:46 AM PDT by
ARCADIA
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