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CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 8 months agoOK, so something thats never happened before needs to be curtailed?
And even if so, active shooters are rare, do we need to encrypt ALL chatter for something that happens maybe every few years for a given precinct/jurisdiction?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Nope, even never had any sort of analogous situation where armed civilians show up to insert themselves and potentially complicate matters: washingtonpost.com/…/in-all-reality-there-were-th…
I never suggested we did. The original poster referenced a specific context of a “sensitive situation” and you asked for an example, so I provided one that could qualify.