Reply to post: "Just like I expect them to evaluate the reliability of their sources."

Trio indicted after police SWAT prank call leads to cops killing bloke

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"Just like I expect them to evaluate the reliability of their sources."

That's often the very hard part, unluckily - and in this case they were deceived explicitly - and it's hard to believe a gang of idiots could setup something like that.

Moreover, situations like that are also much more riskier - because there is a far higher risk of misunderstanding - a real murderer will act in ways that are more predictable, a person utterly unaware of the situation won't, won't understand quickly what's happening, and that's far more dangerous.

In the case I wrote before, the police was told and believed the daughters were already died. The autopsy revealed they were killed later. But verifying their situation was very difficult.

In too many of these situations there is only a right decision, and many wrong ones.

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