Louis Freeh and False Alarms [RISKS]

Obviously this calls for wiretaps on Freeh's phones and email and hidden cameras in his house to prevent future occurrences.... From [risks] Risks Digest 21.28 ========================= Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:57:54 -0500 From: Graystreak Subject: Risks of self-induced false alarms http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38625-2001Mar7.html FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said he and his wife had been baffled by a series of false alarms from the security system in their Great Falls area home. Fairfax County police responded each time, but no suspects had been nabbed. It seems that two of his six sons, then ages 5 and 4, had been amusing themselves by making their 2-year-old brother run in circles in the basement to set off the motion detector. "They would sit and watch for the police to come," Freeh said. [AW notes: no discussion of why the motion detector was on in the basement while the children were home, nor why the police didn't adopt a "call before responding" policy after some number of false alarms.] =================================================