Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
by gpm on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:36PM
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If the police can afford to dispatch a team of people with guns, and enough cars to fill up the street (in this case), they can afford to dispatch people to investigate. I do not accept your assertion to the contrary as true. It is the case that investigating instead of immediately reacting might allow crimes to occur that could have been prevented, but it seems to me to be what the constitution demands.
Certainly there have both been cases were US police busted doors in response to swatting, e.g. [1] and killed someone in response to swatting, e.g. [2]. Admittedly I'm not sure if they ever happened simultaneously, nor do I think that's relevant to any of the points I have made. The points I made were
- People have been killed while attempting to comply with police orders, which incidentally [2] is an example of (as well as an example of swatting).
- Busting doors during actual hostage situations would get people killed, not swatting. [3] is a particularly powerful example of that...
Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison
by tptacek on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:18PM
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No, they can't. The resource they're limited on isn't money, it's time. The window of time they have to respond to a genuine distress call is very small.
Certainly there have both been cases were US police busted doors in response to swatting, e.g. [1] and killed someone in response to swatting, e.g. [2]. Admittedly I'm not sure if they ever happened simultaneously, nor do I think that's relevant to any of the points I have made. The points I made were
- People have been killed while attempting to comply with police orders, which incidentally [2] is an example of (as well as an example of swatting).
- Busting doors during actual hostage situations would get people killed, not swatting. [3] is a particularly powerful example of that...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVkQ-yheOEE
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-kil...
[3] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/video-four-dead-in-p...