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> someone has murdered several people and is armed and has taken hostages

Should this not be responded to with lethal force available? You're going to get a lot more people killed that way. Obviously the error rate should be reduced as much as possible, but a naive approach of ignoring calls without a lot of validation would be a disaster.

I imagine it would be really easy to fake some verification anyways, and coordinate a SWAT with two callers.




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