-=> Quoting William Viets to Bobbie Beers <=-
Hi William,
 WV> Ha!  Good one!  I think it has something to do with the fact that
 WV> because of the 1st Amendment people think the news media has a right
 WV> to do just about anything.  The public safety types love the attention
 WV> and coverage, so who's left to file a complaint?  Mere technicalities,
 WV> m'thinks.
 The "Halo Principle"? 
 WV> Those tapes are released by their "owners," usually local government
 WV> agencies, as agents of "the people".  Of course in my experience every
 WV> local agency worth its salt releases just about any and everything
 WV> which it cares to, so long as those releases further the department's
 WV> cause! 
 WV> Try to break loose a 911 tape or a department's radio loggings on tape
 WV> which demonstrate anything much less than top flight professionalism
 WV> -- that's a whole n'other ball game, heh-heh.  The infamous
 WV> Philadelphia debacle was caused largely by incompetency (and aided and
 WV> abetted by an unfortunate tragicomedy of procedural imponderables --
 WV> read "less than perfect SOPs and common sense training".  Those tapes
 WV> showed even bigger flaws in 911 personnel, so they were released to
 WV> demonstrate that the city was on the ball and didn't really plan or
 WV> even want to have its citizens killed because of the bureaucracy and
 WV> its bungling. 
 Exactly, makes you wonder how many more of those same types of calls have
 occured, and not been reported. It's happened here in Dallas too, and I 
on't
 think any city is immune. In some instances calls don't even make it as far
 as the operator. The lines were too jammed!
 Bobbie
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