If individuals don't want to hear the calls or relive that day's horrific events, they should simply NOT LISTEN.
My heart was and still is sick over the shootings of innocent people and children. There is so much horror and craziness in this world we do not need to hear any more .The families are never ever going to be the same so by releasing these calls ask yourself what will it do to change the outcome how will it help the healing process for these families? Move forward and pray for the little ones that no longer have a voice. These tapes are best left in the hands of authorities.
Newtown didn't release them voluntarily, they were forced to give them up.
I think it's absolutely stupid to say that it will help improve law enforcement's response to such incidents. First, because law enforcement officials already had access to the 9-1-1 tapes. Second, because it was all over before police even had a chance to get there. Third, because if 26 dead bodies, in and of themselves, are not enough motivation for law enforcement to try and improve their response, then we really have the wrong people in law enforcement.
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If the tapes were used within law enforcement to teach officers and officials how to improve on responding to situations like this it might be a good point but releasing them to the entire general public wont help with that.
I think it is needless,i think it is being done more to reassure the public that law enforcement are capable of responding quickly and efficiently and that they did a good job for want of perhaps a better expression on the day of that shooting.
It will probably serve to flame the ongoing grief of the families involved too but i suppose one good thing might come out of it in the sense that maybe at last it will dampen down some of the ridiculous conspiracy theorists.
I really don't think it does any good to have the extra information. The families directly and indirectly effected by this incident are going to be going through enough as it is this time of the year, being the first Christmas since. Releasing more information, particularly at this time, is not going to help them at all. I teach at Newtown High School, so I am closely related to the incident. In hearing other teachers opinions, I haven't come across one that actually wanted the information released. I think if they were really convinced that it should be released, at least release it during a time which isn't the anniversary of it happening. Between the information itself and the time of its release, I think it is going to cause more grief for the families of Sandy Hook.
I think if nothing else they might provide some type of "comfort" to parents in schools that they are fortunate to have competent 911 professionals handling their systems.
They could be used as a training standard throughout the United States and enhance the degree of confidence the public currently has. Not all 911 telephone responders are equal.
As we have all experienced, time and again, when there is an accident on our freeways, Americans slow to an absolute crawl. We WANT to see all the blood, the mangled bodies, the spilled guts, and the broken bones slashing through broken skin. We WANT to see brains splattered on a windshield. The 911 tapes are simply an audio version of doing the " lookie-loo" at a traffic accident. Our children dress up as ghouls on one night of the year-----Halloween. American adults have this trait perfected every day of the year.
I am interested in hearing the 911 calls, what's wrong with releasing the calls. If it is released to the media they will also make money. Don't get me wrong people should just stop being so butt hurt for attention and making everything a big deal.
It may well be that listening to these calls will help law enforcement people to handle things more effectively in future.
And so, I suppose, it is worth making them public. Not that the entire public wants to hear them; but that some may be helped by them.
When practical, I would assume that some identifying information would be withheld.
No! They should never release the 911 calls, because that is not safe at all and it might happen again. So no, they should never release the 911 calls.
Have a great day and I hope my answer helped.
Recordings of several 911 calls made from inside Sandy Hook Elementary during last year's school shooting are being released under court order. Many tried to stop these tapes from going public and others say it will help improve law enforcement's response to such incidents. What do you think?
Article: http://yhoo.it/IuTe0F
Illogical and contemptible. Is the American pubic innately enticed by phone calls while powerless children are indiscriminately slaughtered into smithereens?
Whomever relinquished these calls has profound integrity/morality issues.
@James, perhaps the sight of bullet riddled hunks of kiddie meat and incapacitated screaming children enthralls/gets you off, as for me I do not ascribe to your ludicrous allegation. Refrain from incorporating the rest of us...
Does releasing the recordings change the outcome, one iota????
Then what earthly difference does it make? Those poor kids are still dead, and their parents will have a hole in their hearts til the day *they* die.
Tapes or no tapes, changes none of that .....unfortunately.
People are calling on the second amendment regarding Newtown, me thinks they are gore mongers! What does the average citizen have to do with this? Should those involved not have a say? what of their privacy? How will this help those not affected?
Anything as long as it helps to persuade some very silly and naive people that it wasnt a hoax of some kind.
I mean it might be painful for the families to hear it AGAIN and again.
That could be painful for them as they are trying to move on.
That is the only thing.
Then again i heard there is nothing that could be really heard.
I am on the fence. But i would basically say...I would not want to re-live that
painful time.
It makes my eyes roll that people wring their hands over crap like this.
We have truly become a spineless, neutered nation when all we do is anguish and worry about offending someone's sensibilities.
People need to learn to develop thicker skin and get over themselves.
Damned pansies.
People may start listening to what's going on with the world.
I dont really see the purpose for the public. You listen to it and its like "ok?"
I think the media has too much control and not enough etiquette...
I’m sorry, I can’t read all the link. Your link freezes and won’t scroll. Could you post another link?
I think they should take measures to make sure it doesn't happen again.
