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Given the recent judicial president set for revenge porn cases, I feel we need a similarly harsh ruling for those found guilty of swatting. This is a crime that

Given the recent judicial president set for revenge porn cases, I feel we need a similarly harsh ruling for those found guilty of swatting. This is a crime that could easily result in the deaths of innocent victims, and the punishment needs to reflect that. Doxing for the purposes of shaming wouldn't be bad to punish either. I don't want us to become a vengeful police state, but this kind of cowardly behavior makes me angry. Aside from training the police, FBI, et al., how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently?

fenomas 12y ago
> how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently? I suppose there's more to it than just better police procedures, but I'm gobsmacked every time I read about a police force breaking down a door, or even drawing a gun, based on nothing but an anonymous email or phone call. It smacks of a system that's never encountered bad inputs before. In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals.
- DanBC 12y ago
  > In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals. In England it used to be the case that many reports to "Crimestoppers" (an anonymous tip-off line) were from drug dealers informing on the competitors. And here's an article from 2000 about informants http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/12/ukcrime.tonythompson http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/12/ukcrime.tonythomps...