Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think there's a report of an officer down on a campus every day.
"some crime"
Not to belittle petty theft, but "two officers down" is really not just "some crime".
Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#112Anyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?
I would imagine that MIT is particularly close to the hearts of many on this site.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#113They are advising all officers to power down their cell phones for fear of explosion. This is bad.
They're talking about robots on the scene with "devices". It sounds like there are some suspicious devices, potentially explosives. Yikes.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#114"Second officer down, hand grenades and automatic gunfire." In Watertown, Spruce and Lincoln. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
To expand, there was an armed carjacking in Cambridge by two men. The carjacking victim escaped after a half hour. Lojack on the car led officers to Watertown. When officers found the car, reports of shots fired, explosions / grenades and a running gun battle.
Update: one suspect reportedly in custody en route to hospital. Sounds like second suspect has been taken into custody as well. Later update: NOT clear that second suspect is in custody.
Edit: Rough location of the armed confrontation where the suspect(s) were taken into custody and the second officer was reported down. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=spruce+st,+Cambridge,+MA&...
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some crime happens on a college campus probably every day. Most likely hundreds of violent crimes a year. But the reason this is on HN is MIT, nothing more.
i was a bit surprised seeing this on top of HN - i feel its out of place. anyone else?
Many fellow hackers in the Boston/Cambridge area?
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#116Police are being asked to power down their cellphones to avoid possibly detonating some explosive devices.
"multiple locations of devices"... Damn.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#117Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
Shots fired often? San Jose, yes. Right next door in Santa Clara? No. The majority of SC "10-57" calls turn out to be fireworks. People around here sure love their illegal aerial (!) fireworks.
I know this from listening to the scanner regularly.
Like so many things, "it depends".
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
The figure I've seen is $2-4mm (based on payouts from life insurance by the government, etc.), but this was a few years ago, so maybe inflation. Obviously there are huge differences between humans.
Life insurance payouts are actually an even worse measure of value here. Life insurance payouts should be set by the liabilities left over when someone dies (i.e. children that still need to be raised). A person with no dependents doesn't need life insurance (except for funeral expenses), but that doesn't mean orders of magnitude less should be spent to save their life.
Should be but frequently are not. Life insurance is frequently based on current income rather than current liabilities, and that is before we get into known cases of fraud involving murder for the insurance money.
Still I agree with you. Have a couple of upvotes. You can put a dollar value on a human life but it doesn't really cover it. Life is more than dollars and cents.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#119"Second officer down, hand grenades and automatic gunfire." In Watertown, Spruce and Lincoln. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
Being able to hear this happen in real time is surreal.
Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
#120cambridge police on twitter. I live here. Its a somewhat automated system, but the sometime respond to questions.