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Originally Posted by Acajack
Initially it looks like they went into the "targeted incident, no risk to public mode". That was understandable. Big city cops also do that all the time.
I think it may have only emerged the following morning (Sunday) that this might be a spree killer.
Still, according to social media posts that I am seeing via the accounts of friends and relatives in Nova Scotia, public alerts/warnings were slow, sporadic and geographically limited.
It's been mentioned the Amber Alert system that interrupts everything on cell phones and radio stations with a shrieking sound, was not used. He killed some people around 10 am or even after that, so perhaps some people did not hear any warnings and ventured out unknowingly. Or maybe they were killed while sheltering at home and he broke in. Or maybe they heard the warnings and didn't care and went out anyway. I guess we don't really know right now.
Still, we have someone like Hali on here who only heard about it later in the day when it was over.
I read some Nova Scotians' messages who ironically noted they used the screeching cell phone alert to tell people to stay inside for COVID-19, but not for this?
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Well from the rumours I've heard, it was indeed a targeted attack at first, from whom I've heard were the first victims. Oftentimes in those cases, the assailant does what he felt he wanted to do, and then kills himself. Somewhere along the line it changed. And perhaps that was his original plan, given the length of preparations that he went through. But all that was in his mind, and the RCMP had absolutely NO way of knowing that until they had to act reactively.
At this point, I am willing to cut them some slack, as you have to understand that they are dealing with the largest mass murder in Canadian history.
Again, I don't know what good an amber alert would have been anyhow. Usually the mass hysteria this creates just confuses things further, and would impede the police from doing their job. Things would have transpired so quickly there would not have been time to alert the public as to what was happening, nor would the public have been able to process it IMHO.
An analogy that I came up with, for anybody who has ever played sports, is like trying to predict when the next goal will happen, and trying to give somebody who is not at the rink a head up as to what is going to happen before it happens. Things are fast and loose, and IMHO the police had their hands full trying to coordinate their actions to take this guy down before he could kill anybody else. And, I believe they did an amazing job at it, putting their own lives on the line in the process.
Very hard for me to be critical of any of it, when you realize the enormity and the difficulty of actually dealing with a fast-moving, unpredictable situation like that.
We, the public have been so accustomed to being fed info at a lightning fast pace, we tend to forget sometimes that shit happens quickly out there, and we can't always be protected from every little hazard and threat that is about to present itself. In this case they did the best that anybody could do.
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) does the warning pop up anyway?
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