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What about the phone company's role in all this? Don't they share some culpability for delivering spoofed information to a 911 operator? I understand that their
by teeray 8y ago
What about the phone company's role in all this? Don't they share some culpability for delivering spoofed information to a 911 operator? I understand that their entire business is delivering calls, but for whatever reason that 911 operator thought the call was legit based off of the metadata they saw. I feel like if they had a "hey this looks like a shady voip call" message on their terminals, they could communicate that to the responding officers which could have diminished their response.
I'm probably vastly simplifying the phone system, but if it doesn't hurt for telcos too when this kind of abuse happens, they're not likely to help improve the situation.
- romanovcode 8y agoI'm amazed by your mental-gymnastics of trying to shift blame to someone else. At worst it is 50/50 between the scumbag caller and the unprofessional SWAT officer. I still think that blame should go to the scumbag person because it wasn't his first SWAT "prank". IMO he should be charged for murder 25-life.
- jasonwatkinspdx 8y agoI read the answer to that in an article a while back: the swatter did't call 911 directly, but instead called the security desk at city hall.
- teeray 8y agoAh, TIL. Any kind of additional metadata likely wouldn't have helped anyway.