| ▲ | blooalien 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> At some point, the responding local police should be held criminally liable. At some point, the people doing the "swatting" (false police call) should be held criminally liable, maybe even for attempted murder by cop. There's definitely a crime being committed there. I'm 100% sure that calling the cops on someone and making a false report is against at least one or two (or maybe even several) laws. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pdonis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm guessing the calls were anonymous, and the police didn't bother tracing the numbers. Which does raise the question: why is it SOP for the police to send a SWAT team to a random house based on nothing but an anonymous phone call? At the very least it should take some kind of statement from an actual identified human who can be held accountable if it turns out to be a hoax. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | valleyer 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definitely. But I've at least heard about the people doing the false reports being prosecuted, even if not consistently enough for my liking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rectang an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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