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You Remain Anonymous: Why Is This Important?
When you call the WeTip Crime Hotline, please do not give your name or identify yourself in any way. The WeTip anonymous hotline provides complete protection for the informant and gives them the freedom to be completely honest about what they have seen or heard.
Typically when establishing a hotline, many communities and companies interchange the two words, "anonymous" and "confidential," and use them synonymously. However, the two words hold very different meanings and require very specific principles for providing an effective crime reporting system.
According to Webster, confidential is defined as "to tell in confidence," "entrusting with a secret," "to put in another's keeping." Confidential basically means that someone knows who the caller is but they promise not to say anything. They promise, that is, until they are subpoenaed to testify in court.
Anonymous is defined as "having an unknown or withheld name." True anonymity maintains the security of the informant because there is no one that knows who the caller is. They cannot tell, even under oath, because there is nothing to tell.
Anonymous crime reporting requires complete anonymity. This means that no one, under any circumstances, will know who made the report. Thus "anonymous" is an unknown caller with a name that has not been given and cannot be identified.
If a hotline claims to confidential it means that someone is keeping the informant's name a secret and they will hold the tip information in confidence. Unfortunately, past experience reveals that when the person with the secret is subpoenaed to testify in court, they will be forced to reveal their secret.
Anonymous reporting is the only safe way for an informant to give information without fear of reprisal or having to testify.
