Police Need To Arrest, Charge, Ticket Or Fines People Making Racist Emergency Calls On Blacks.

[TheMastersNemesis]

These harassing calls on black who are just doing their normal business need to be punished in some way. Otherwise they will get worse.

[beachbum bob]

1. the proper recourse would to have these people be sued as well as the cops. Money does talk

when you have it and when you have to give it up.

[mythology]

4. Actually this would be rather silly

If you sued the cops for showing up because they got a call, they would have incentive to not show up. What happens if it's a legitimate call but they didn't show up because it might not have been?

[beachbum bob]

5. what needs to happen is for cops to do their due dilliegence and how will that ever happen if there

is no downside for them? If they don't show up for legitimate call, sue them for that

[tritsofme]

9. What the heck are you talking about?

When there is a 911 call, cops shouldn’t be doing “due diligence” they should show up.

The problem is the people making false calls.

[oberliner]

2. Online shaming seems really effective

[Zoonart]

3. ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

I think this is a coordinated effort to "legally" harass blacks. Racist emergency calls are a drain on public resources and should be met with a fine of at least $500.00. If they want to fight. it they can appear in court.

[JCanete]

6. I'm not sure how this should be handled because there's a slippery slope here, and I don't

want some sort of retaliatory system that ends up being used to discourage people from reporting certain kinds of activity. Really, this is just off the top of my head concern, but what if somebody called in domestic abuse and the accused abuser who lived at a house happened to be a police officer? If no "evidence" were obtained at the scene of the crime to justify the call, could a case be made against the person who called in the "fake" complaint?

I think in cases where the call isn't anonymous maybe there should be a follow up with that person. It seems like a high bar to prove that somebody contacted the authorities with ill intent, although clearly that's exactly what's been happening, and some examples easily clear that bar.

I do think Investigations should be done into anonymous calls that appear to have that intent, presumably with some sort of court order sanctioning it. And frankly, police need to be trained to keep in mind that a call could be a prank.

[Panich52]

7. Isn't crime to make false police reports?

At least they should be fined for wasting police time & drawing resources from where actual crimes may be occurring.

[dlk]

8. Where I Used to Live There was a $500 Fine for Making Non-Emergency 911 Calls

In my experience, police departments support this since non-emergency calls are a waste of resources & extremely annoying.

[Wounded Bear]

10. That's what I thought...

there should already be statutes in place to punish those who misuse or abuse the system for their own racist desires.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Would never work in red counties.

They have to police their own kind.

[librechik]

12. There should be HUUUUUUGE fines for empty racist complaints--why not, since no white person

is ever racist, they claim. What is there to fear?