No, but if your concern about this truly is to minimize the amount of people who are anxious to call emergency services, publishing this and making it news is having the exact opposite effect. The prudent thing would be to not report it then with that goal in mind. Unless there is actual proof that fire fighters are reporting people to ICE after helping them, this is just fear mongering.
Please tell me a method to prove this and I will do it. I am a master at obtaining records but how the hell would I get the anonymous call logs to ICE and then back search to find if any are firefighters who were in a house?
By this logic, I should report on nothing unless there is bonafide provable harm. I would write almost nothing!
You're the journalist here, you tell me. Journalists sit on issues and decide against publishing all the time. All I am saying here is that, again, if your goal is to make people not be anxious about calling the fire department as you say it is, then this article is having the exact opposite effect. Do with that what you will.
It was on reddit with 300+ likes and is probably going to be picked up by regional media due to Evanstons political leanings. Its newsworthy and better to be addressed head on. I might agree with you on this if it was like a random tip and not already out there (I do choose to not publish stuff like that all the time). The cat was already out of the bag. But I hear you on this
You’re arguing that I should cover this up because I cant prove that this has ever happened, even if I wanted to?
No, but if your concern about this truly is to minimize the amount of people who are anxious to call emergency services, publishing this and making it news is having the exact opposite effect. The prudent thing would be to not report it then with that goal in mind. Unless there is actual proof that fire fighters are reporting people to ICE after helping them, this is just fear mongering.
Please tell me a method to prove this and I will do it. I am a master at obtaining records but how the hell would I get the anonymous call logs to ICE and then back search to find if any are firefighters who were in a house?
By this logic, I should report on nothing unless there is bonafide provable harm. I would write almost nothing!
You're the journalist here, you tell me. Journalists sit on issues and decide against publishing all the time. All I am saying here is that, again, if your goal is to make people not be anxious about calling the fire department as you say it is, then this article is having the exact opposite effect. Do with that what you will.
It was on reddit with 300+ likes and is probably going to be picked up by regional media due to Evanstons political leanings. Its newsworthy and better to be addressed head on. I might agree with you on this if it was like a random tip and not already out there (I do choose to not publish stuff like that all the time). The cat was already out of the bag. But I hear you on this