Filing a false police report is a crime, if the citizen makes a false report they should be arrested.

Speaking of false reports/confusing reports...read through this info...Open carry is probably doomed!

https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/swatting-one-thing-law-abiding-gun-owners-worry/?id=facebook&sid=fanpage_article_11-7-14

A false report is a person who "intends" to commit a crime. (A culpable state of mind)

A person who sees someone carrying a gun in the open and feels threatened and calls the police is not filing a false report.

That would be a unfounded complaint.

I open carry quite often and I've never had an issue, I just get mistaken for law enforcement once in a while. The weirdest question I was asked has been do I work at walmart.

Quote from: Wolfie on November 08 2014 02:24:23 PM MST
A false report is a person who "intends" to commit a crime. (A culpable state of mind)

A person who sees someone carrying a gun in the open and feels threatened and calls the police is not filing a false report.

That would be a unfounded complaint.

Actually, social media makes it easy tovdraw a distinction. It ought to be pretty straightforward to subpoena records from Facebook and the DU to verify that the person boasted about filing a false report.

Just cause they bragged about filing the report online doesn't mean they had criminal intent.  It means they don't know the law and thought they had been a good samaritan and saved a life from a gang banger or one of those gun nuts who is about to snap.

What chaps my hide is when dispatch doesn't say back to a report of a man with a gun "Is he doing anything criminal?  Cause carrying a gun is legal."

It will be interesting to see their data; unfiltered of course, to see if it give any value/benefit to the technology.

LEO body cameras offers this same info. 

Quote from: sqlbullet on November 10 2014 07:47:51 AM MST
Just cause they bragged about filing the report online doesn't mean they had criminal intent.  It means they don't know the law and thought they had been a good samaritan and saved a life from a gang banger or one of those gun nuts who is about to snap.

What chaps my hide is when dispatch doesn't say back to a report of a man with a gun "Is he doing anything criminal?  Cause carrying a gun is legal."

I mean before the fact. I've seen several folks on Facebook (surrounding the Starbucks situation) who commented that they intended to call police if they saw a person carrying a gun.

And yes, the excuse from law enforcement that they have to investigate every report is hogwash. If someone called saying they saw a man with a chainsaw, or a car, or wearing a turtleneck, the police wouldn't "have to investigate."