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Originally Posted by browna
Part of the problem with them deciding to fire off a cell phone alert is could be that he was impersonating a police officer, and that’s hard to communicate that because then no one will know the real police trying to protect them.
And not familiar enough with that emergency system and how it works, is it tower based? Regional based? If that alert is not specific enough, or NS isn’t large enough to have it be that specific, and the alert goes out to Truro and even Halifax, again, saying there is a person out there impersonating a cop out that is shooting people, it could cause chaos in cities.
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I could understand if due to technical issues, and being unable to be specific enough of the threat that they would be hesitant in issuing an alert, but they gotta do an emergency broadcast telling people to stay in shelter due to active shooter. They were posting updates on social media after all, so no excuse why they didn't give a public broadcast alert of some manner.
This is a really big #### up on the alert system here. A fair amount of lives may have been lost due to it's inactivity.