Colorado Springs Police Department dispatchers recently received a service call about a woman who was allegedly threatening passersby with a knife, occasionally swinging and thrusting it toward people who came near her.
As officers prepared to respond to the call, they began to receive clarifying information: The woman was holding a stick, not a knife, and was arrested without further incident.
“That new information changed the level of the response and likely saved the woman from getting injured,” said CSPD spokeswoman Caitlin Ford…