[WikiEN-l] threats of violence

[George Herbert]

I'm not aware of anyone who admits to being a peace officer who contributes,
though I'm sure some are out there.  Assuming that they're near email when
we need them is unwise.

In terms of contacts... how big a rolodex did you have in mind?  There are
tens of thousands of police agencies in the US alone.  Nobody actually
maintains such a list.

Law enforcement agencies can send each other electronic alerts these days,
and are perfectly happy for you to report something happening in a remote
location to your own local agency and have them forward the report over.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Responding_to_threats_of_harm

We already encourage anyone who thinks there's a credible threat of violence
or suicide to report it to authorities (either local to the threat, or to
them), and also ANI so that others can take a look an help if justified.


-george

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Seriously, I mean specially trained individuals with a rolodex of
> emergency contacts/and who are peace officers.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:44:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] threats of violence
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > We should have a special unit to deal with these.
>
> Some people call it the FBI.  :)
>
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-george william herbert
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