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How much training is required to effectively distinguish between a real threat and a hoax? Do police even get this training or is Swatting a relatively recent p
by weberc2 8y ago
How much training is required to effectively distinguish between a real threat and a hoax? Do police even get this training or is Swatting a relatively recent phenomenon that hasn’t made it into police training curriculum yet? “Evil police” is a nice pat answer, but rarely are such answers correct.
- bunderbunder 8y agoSwatting is just a new twist on the long-standing pattern of high-strung police officers getting jumpy and killing people who were never a threat. There's even a famous Richard Pryor bit about it.
- weberc2 8y agoEarnest question: is this perception based on data or is it biased by media reporting? (not your perception specifically, but the general perception)
- soared 8y agoIf you assume it was not a hoax, the police response was still to shoot without being provoked. Hardly seems like whether its a hoax or not is op's point.
- weberc2 8y agoI was responding to this: > What's the point of having "trained" professionals if they can't distinguish a real threat from a hoax? I don't know how you can read that and think "whether it's a hoax or not is not the OP's point"
- abiox 8y ago> I don't know how you can read that and think "whether it's a hoax or not is not the OP's point" the op's point seemed more about training and response/behavior, and the hoax bit was just the matter of the present circumstance.