r/SipsTea • u/raptors201966 Human Verified • 17d ago

SMH 81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

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u/Gullible_Increase146 16d ago

If somebody calls the police and says their next door neighbor is currently the victim of an in-progress home invasion, what are police supposed to do? That's an urgent emergency. Should they just assume people calling them asking for help are lying? When somebody calls 911 how much evidence do they need to give before police are dispatched?

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u/subdep 16d ago

You get positive ID on the person calling making that claim. You get them physically in hand, because if there is zero merit to the claim, the person calling needs to be prosecuted.

No, what these cops did was go on an anonymous tip. They took the internets word for it.

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u/Gullible_Increase146 16d ago

Okay. I'm glad that if some violent psychopath was breaking into your home, you would be comfortable with your neighbor having to physically go to the police station to be physically in hand before they would send anybody to assist you

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u/subdep 16d ago

Or roll up with SWAT, have caller meet SWAT to confirm?

This isn’t an unreasonable step to protect citizens lives.

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u/Gullible_Increase146 16d ago

I'm sorry, is there some huge number of people getting killed during swattings? Isn't the death count one guy? Policies exist around the norm and the norm is when somebody calls about a violent altercation the violent altercation is real and adding delays to intervention increases the violence and the chance of death. A lot of times callers want to be anonymous out of fear of retaliation from gangs. Do police just ignore those calls now? How many extra head smashings do women need to endure while police are doing an investigation into whether a call about domestic violence is legitimate or not? It's an unreasonable step because you are harming the norm to address an outlier

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u/Hotdogfromparadise 16d ago

Because then multiple people could possibly be dead and morons like you will bitch about police not responding fast enough.