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>But leaving out the facts that the guy reported himself to be a murderer, Sorry to interrupt with a slightly different issue, but anybody can call the police,
by fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
>But leaving out the facts that the guy reported himself to be a murderer,
Sorry to interrupt with a slightly different issue, but anybody can call the police, tell them some story, and cause SWAT to show up at your location. SWAT-ing is a thing. It happens. So is SWAT teams mistakenly showing up at the wrong address, and all sorts of other human errors. It happened to Brian Krebs recently, and it can happen to anyone.
So, without regard to whether there is an actual heinous criminal pedophile terror suspect holed-up in his house, or whatever else is going on; we do want SWAT teams to err on the side of professionalism and restraint, not on the side of driving armored vehicles into peoples' houses, killing their pets and generally terrorizing their victims.
You won't have to look long to find plenty of examples of police acting with complete disregard for the safety of suspects, suspects' property.
- anigbrowl 13y agoYes, and that's a problem, but that's not what's at issue here.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoIt is certainly my issue here :-)
- anigbrowl 13y agoWhat, that third parties could call in a SWAT team? Why not make that your issue on one of the (sadly numerous) examples of this actually happening, as opposed to one where it seems to have actually been appropriate?
- jnbiche 13y agoFor a recent example of a third-party essentially calling in a SWAT team on someone, see: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-fo...
- hga 13y agoThere's been a recent spate of this for political reasons: https://www.google.com/search?q=brett+kimberlin+swatting+or+swatted https://www.google.com/search?q=brett+kimberlin+swatting+or+...