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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Not picking on you Whiteout but there are two points in here I will respond to. Both are in reference to the most recent Amber Alert:
1. I've seen a few posts regarding ranking the severity of the alerts and why we cannot do it. Correct me if I am wrong but we already do. Alerts can go out to select geographic areas based on the severity of the alert. If the authorities deem it urgent enough to broadcast a message it needs to go to everyone IMHO, but we do have the ability now to send to everyone but only in targeted areas. That's good enough for me.
2. the point about better vetting. There were also posters here commenting on how long it too EPS to send out the amber alert which therefore meant it went out province wide due to the large distance the child could have been moved in that time. So police are being faulted for taking too long (and thus increasing the geographic area of the alert) or rushing the alert out and risking a false alarm. Not sure how we expect to have it both ways.
Overall I'm satisfied with the current set up. We can alert to as big an area as we want to. If the alert warrants sending out an alert to the public it needs to go to every phone, no picking and choosing if you want to receive them or when. But that's just my opinion.
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Amber alerts don't need the ability to bypass do not disturb though. That functionality was meant to be used when everyone needed the alert, no matter what they were doing, no matter the time of day. If sent with the proper priority, everyone would receive the amber alert, but it wouldn't blare through DND settings. All they are going to wind up accomplishing is pissing people off and having more and more people ignore alerts.