Thus, the legal question of online threats is not whether to write new laws, but how to enforce the ones we have. We have many of the tools we need to combat online threats. Officers often don’t take online threats seriously because they lack training to understand the devastating impact of this speech. Getting law enforcement to investigate online threats has been a struggle. Officers often don’t take online threats seriously — dismissing them as “just talk” or silly “rants” — because they lack training to understand the devastating impact of this speech.

Source: New York Times August 03, 2016 07:18 UTC