My phone has the ability to disable Amber alerts separately from most other emergency alerts, but this one went out as an "Extreme threat" alert, and it feels unwise to disable those.

Maybe the fact that a potentially dangerous person exists 7 hours away from me shouldn't be classified as an extreme threat?

Aside from blocking everything, is there something we can do to get these reclassified, or at least make them regional?

Completely incompetent police woke up the entire state.

A Blue Alert is a public bulletin that informs the media, law enforcement, and the public about the search for a person who is suspected of harming or killing a law enforcement officer.

Sounds pointless even then not a false alarm. Just use a regular shelter-in-place alert or whatever. No need to also specify cops are in harm’s way. That should be obvious.

They really do render these emergency systems useless by using them in such sn annoying and ineffective way.

If an alert actually meant the risk was immediate and near by based on cell tower proximity or something i would check them every time, note license numbers, etc

But 90% of the time it's some shit out in Bumblefuck, TX and the car would have travelling straight to me by air to be within my vicinity any time soon.

One of the main things I don’t miss since I left Texas is overbearing police

This is how we will get the community on our side!

Yeah I haven’t gotten back to sleep since.

I feel like I am the only person in Texas who didn't get this alert, and yes I do have my alerts turned on because I normally get every amber alert and panic dismiss them without reading just to make the annoying noise go away.

I debated with myself for an hour or so this AM, as this alert system SHOULD be a good thing, but in the end, I'm turning them off. There are tornado sirens for bad weather, and the odds of me actually having actionable notice from alerts like this are astronomically low.

Thankfully I had already disabled the blue alerts