Sally Kimball
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This kind of "the public do not need to worry" response from police has become more and more common recently. To me it serves a few purposes:
- the public are placated and go about their lives in a normal fashion
- the public may also feel that the police have matters under control and are moving in on a suspect so there is less chance of an outburst of vigilantism
- the suspect may get a false sense of security by thinking they are not under scrutiny and get sloppy while under observation
Sometimes the "the public do not need to worry" response is police speak for the following
- a suspected suicide
- a suspected homicide with a specific targeted victim
In this case I'm not sure of the Bedford's police thinking but I think it may be in an effort to calm the community and possibly that they have their eyes on specific people. I am hoping that there will be an arrest in the next 24 hours.
I think a false sense of security would be the last thing a community needs when a dangerous criminal is among them. Like a month ago, a man went nuts and went on a couple day crime spree across the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The couple that was shot was near my kids' school and it had to be put on lockdown, otherwise I might have never heard about it. This dude kidnapped a guy in Dallas, stole a car, broke into a home, shot the couple who lived there (the man died, the wife did not), stole their ATM card and another car...just...absolute craziness. And no one was like "Watch out for this guy. Here's a description. He kidnapped a man today."
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star...al/community/fort-worth/article143976174.html