I personally think his punishment should be long enough to be some kind of deterrent to this, perhaps 10 years in jail? Apparently there is something like 400

I personally think his punishment should be long enough to be some kind of deterrent to this, perhaps 10 years in jail? Apparently there is something like 400 of these swatting incidents in a year. So while it sucks that the person died, most of the blame does actually belong to the swatting culture, not the police officer. Think about it, 400 incidents in a year * 5 years this has been going on = 2000 high stress events involving 5 - 10 police officers = 10000 to 20000 police officers with weapons cocked and ready to fire at people. So 1 out of 20000 police officers makes a mistake - yes its the culture that caused this, and when this number hits 40000 or 100000 what will the body count be?