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Is Swatting a thing outside of the US? Would it be possible for some random evil asshat to execute violence via swatting if the swat police wasn't so trigger h
by lawn 3y ago
Is Swatting a thing outside of the US?
Would it be possible for some random evil asshat to execute violence via swatting if the swat police wasn't so trigger happy?
No?
Then maybe swat is the big problem.
- formerly_proven 3y agoNot really, no. People do sometimes call in bomb threats to skip school though. The by far most common crime involving cops and phones is to call elderly people pretending to be cops to extort money. They usually spoof the caller ID of the local PD or even the emergency number itself in some cases.
- pjc50 3y agoFamously, the collapse of Kiwifarms was triggered by them carrying on their usual campaign of swatting against Keffals when she had gone to an address in Northern Ireland, whose police are much more savvy to threats. You really don't hear about swatting being a thing in the UK because the police don't have nearly the same level of license and impunity for violence. So everytime there is such an incident it's national news.
- richbell 3y ago[dead]
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- pyrale 3y agoNot to the same extent, since many places don't deploy such extreme violence for policing, but yes, that happens elsewhere.
- kcplate 3y agoWhy not go one more level up in your abstraction and ask “why does SWAT exist?”. Why stop at the police? Assholes doing evil are why SWAT units exist and evil assholes use SWAT to do evil. The big problem is evil assholes.