[spijdar]

As you alluded to, I think telling the cops someone has your phone and telling the cops someone is about to shoot up a bunch of people should get different responses.

Now, I'm not saying cops don't abuse their power nor what response they should give to an "obviously" bogus threat, but even for a trigger happy cop, why bother the risk for someone's phone when there are gonna be hundreds of "credible" threats? I doubt even a crooked cop would be willing to break the rules over someone's stole phone.