swatting

Are politicians swatted enough to make emergency dispatchers authenticate emergency calls? Hopefully, the recent wave of swatting politicians, government officials, and judges, will spur them to make it a crime for the emergency answering and dispatch services not to authenticate calls that could result with dispatching a SWAT unit. Considering the frequently lethal consequences, one […]

First, a definition for those few who don’t know the term swatting: Swatting is causing a police SWAT team to attack someone based on the false report of a dangerous or violent situation (e.g., a bomb threat or hostage-taking). The false report can be made by any means, but most often it is done by