Would you agree, though, that if the person giving the threat is known to the person being threatened and also known to be mentally unstable that the police should take the threat seriously?
Yes, of course. I think I would consider that to be one of the more important things that the police could usefully spend time on, instead of trying to enforce laws on people who say stupid things that they don't really mean, about people they don't know and will never meet.
So who is in charge of evaluating whether the person making the threat is not a credible threat? Who evaluates whether they are personally known (even though the comment is anonymous) or whether they are in good mental health so *of course* they don't mean it?
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philmophlegm) wrote2012-08-01 11:59 am
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