somehow replying to desh in outcastspice's journal seems odd.

Yes, law enforcement can probably find better ways to get personal information. No, I am not depending on Livejournal's security to protect anything that I would not post to the public internet. But it just smells sketchy. The circumstances in which this is supposedly useful are pretty bizarre. I am posting to my lj about suicide (ok, not that bizarre) and I want to be stopped by having lj support call the police? Why the fuck? I have seen some reasonable (sometimes) suggestions for how the internet could report personal crime (best I can find just now) but the lj abuse team just seems like the wrong venue for this. Maybe if I were a whole lot more adicted to lj than I am.

Really, it sounds more like a few lj abuse teammembers who have been badly burned, feel guilty, and are trying to figure out how they could have fixed something that was not their fault. Full credit for trying, but I do not like the answer.