+1steveincowtown wrote:texanjoker wrote:steveincowtown wrote:I think the best way to promote any right is to exercise it without any shame. IMHO It is pretty Orwellian to think that if an citizen is exercising their rights and someone has a problem with it, that we should be reprogramming the citizen instead of offering better training to the LEOs.texanjoker wrote:Another LAME video of people looking for drama. If this guy goes town to town filming the cops, he should know Walmart doesn't allow open carry. The leo's responded to multiple armed people in a Walmart and were calm, cool and did a good job. Heck they didn't even disarm the people so no story.
To me it would be no different than someone calling the cops on a street preacher in downtown Fort Worth. In theory the cops would respond, assess the situation (more than likely without asking for ID or detaining them), realize no laws were being broken and go about their daily business.
If dispatch can't ask MWAG callers for details to separate out the "nothing to see here" calls from those that merit attention, your proposal is the next best thing. I'd summarize it as: roll up, observe what's going on and then determine if contact is warranted. Barring a violation of the law in progress or RAS that something illegal is about to happen, move along.
Aren't LEO resources to precious to use in situations like this? This approach is win-win because it avoids law abiding citizens feeling like they are being treated like criminals and causing I'll will towards our public servants. It also eliminates "gotcha lawsuits".
SA-TX