On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:11 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
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@yahoo.com
wrote:
Seriously, I mean specially trained individuals with a rolodex of emergency contacts/and who are peace officers.
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com wrote:
We should have a special unit to deal with these.
Some people call it the FBI. :)
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Really, the best thing is to just go to the police. If they really are suicidal, you may save someone's life; if they're just pulling a silly prank or trying to troll, being told by someone with a badge and a gun that it's Really Not Funny is probably not a bad thing anyway. I don't think one can adequately assess the seriousness of a suicide threat based solely on a short online communication.