Expert On All In With Chris Hayes: 'When you get amateur help, you get amateur results'

[onehandle]

Talking about the whole 'see something, say something' request, which has been a Total Failure.

Much like the NRA's call for amateur gun slingers at schools.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. It's worked in other countries

But here is the critical difference, Israelis, Britons and Italans have been told what to look for.

[HipChick]

5. agree....I have reported abandoned luggage ..only to be met with blank stares

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. After 911 I called in an abandoned suitcase

Leaning against a retaining wall at a mall. The cops were happy, mall security...not so much.

[TwilightGardener]

2. When crowds are watching an event, they tend not to be watching each other.

I think there should have been more officers and plainclothes police on the sidewalks, NOT watching the runners, but the crowd--just like Secret Service. Otherwise, I don't have a problem with officials hoping ordinary citizens are alert to trouble--it's worked in the past.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. It's been a total failure? Really?

How so?

[onehandle]

4. Hundred of thousands of wasted hours each year by authorities due to calls.

It's been pointless in he U.S.

Just free advertising for the GOP.