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News & Current Events Apr 29, 2026 at 2:22 PM

Anonymous tip system started in wake of Sandy Hook shooting has fielded nearly 400,000 reports

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Anonymous tip system started in wake of Sandy Hook shooting has fielded nearly 400,000 reports
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Anonymous tip system started in wake of Sandy Hook shooting has fielded nearly 400,000 reports
A group formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has traveled the country trying to prevent such violence from happening.
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Raphe-Perineal Apr 29, 2026 +49
How many of the 395,000 tips turned out to be nothing? How many were called in just to mess with the person being reported? How many were legit, actual threats?
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CanWeTalkEth Apr 30, 2026 +16
That’s like 50 per day, one per state. How many schools or workplaces or public events are happening that that number is too high?
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horrorshowjack May 1, 2026 -2
>Trained crisis counselors staff the “Say Something” anonymous reporting system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, referring serious situations to police and school officials. The most common tips are concerns about bullying, drug use, harassment and self-harm, according to Sandy Hook Promise. > >Every once in a while, the system receives an alarming tip that is immediately passed on to law enforcement. Considering they provide details on all of 3 actual threats, but no mention of overall threat numbers, it seems pretty likely the program doesn't accomplish that much. Other than conditioning kids to be good little future Stasi members.
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Philophon Apr 30, 2026 +20
If one event was averted, would 400k false alarms be worth it?
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Raphe-Perineal Apr 30, 2026 +7
The old 'but if it saves even one life is it worth it' moral dilemma? I don't know the answer to that, but since the founders and creators of the program are praising it, at least give us the number of credible threats and potential school shootings that were averted .v the number of tips that were bullshit. How many of the tips resulted in being disruptive or traumatizing to the lives of the kids that were reported when it was iffy, just all a simple misunderstanding or a prank? Does it become part of their school or police record (that part concerns me)? I'm sure there were many times the call takers and responders knew instinctively that the tip was bogus but whatever the circumstances were at the time they still responded out of dutiful obligation, and it wouldn't look good if the person actually had bad intentions and they did nothing when they could have. It boils down to being a balancing act with bugs that need to be worked out.
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Dopplegangr1 Apr 30, 2026 -1
Maybe less tips would mean more events averted
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SocialWinker Apr 30, 2026 -13
Is it better for one innocent person to go to prison than 10 guilty people go free?
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Philophon Apr 30, 2026 +14
No, it is not. I'm not seeing the correlation of your question with my mine though.
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LeafRunner Apr 29, 2026 -56
Heartwarming to know how successful this has been. We've only known peace and safety since Sandy Hook. So glad school shootings have been eliminated.
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brokebacknomountain Apr 30, 2026 +45
I am so tired of this defeatist attitude. These people lost their children and did somethig to in the hopes that no one else would see their children gunned down in school. What have you done , other than make a sarcastic comment online?
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The_One_Piece_IsReel Apr 30, 2026 +1
That kind of attitude if the rain some people will always be broke, alone, and losers.
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LeafRunner Apr 30, 2026 -13
Sadly I've not done as much work as our amazing and committed politicians who act in good faith every day to make a safer America. After Sandy Hook they all stopped taking money from the gun lobby!
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