Last Time Someone Died being SWATTED

[Ivan Shatov]

Struggling to remember when the last time was I heard of someone getting killed by being swatted. There was that one case where the swat team showed up at the wrong house and killed a guy, but I can't remember anything since then.

Recently, a neighbor was swatted. Police showed up at their door, looking very tactical, and proceeded to knock and politely ask questions. After a brief walk through the house, they had a short conversation and everything was over in about 10 minutes.

There was no battering ram, there was no Halligan bar, there were no rifles or shields, no guns were drawn, the only body armor worn was bullet proof vests. Exposed necks were clearly visible on all the officers on the porch. A perimeter was never created, neighbors were never evacuated, and everything happened within a close distance of an elementary school. A total of 6 officers showed up, 3 of them did not appear to meet physical fitness standards, and 4 of them went back to their cars immediately after being invited into the house. It doesn't appear an actual investigation was conducted despite the presence of a large armory, previous visits from law enforcement, and a resident with a criminal record. I was told the lead officer seemed nice.

This is not what I want to hear about police response to a potentially brutal hostage situation. I get that law enforcement may be aware of swatting and has adjusted tactics accordingly, but this law response may be too much of an over-adjustment. Worried it's eventually going to get cops and hostages killed, I can't understand why law enforcement officers would skip basic procedures to control the situation. I don't want to be friends with cops, I want to know kids are safe.

Is it the same all over? Is swatting now being treated like a noise complaint?

 

[pierce your heart]

There are a lot of factors you don't know that might explain why police wasn't as diligent as you'd like.

First and foremost what was the reported crime. If there's no reason to assume that a life is in danger or the suspect will turn violent there's no reason to cause a major scene/disturb the entire neighbourhood/waste time and resources getting more officers in full gear on the scene

Did your neighbour know he was at risk of getting swatted? if yes, he might have gone to the police and notified them that he does x,y,z and faggots might try to swat him for that. If the police knew it was probably a bogus report they wouldn't kick down the door and beat your neighbour

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I'm not sure what you're asking, here. People not dying from fake calls seems like a net positive and like the previous user said they may have had prior warning. They might even have called ahead, received a response ensuring them that things were alright and then headed over just to be sure.

 

[JULAY]

"This is not what I want to hear about police response to a potentially brutal hostage situation."

So if someone SWATs you and you get shot to death, you'll be happy about it, right?

 

[MemeGrey]

You should take some hostages, then when the shitty SWAT team shows up you can crticize them in person

 

[Ivan Shatov]

Perhaps I could have done a better job stating the problem.

The police received a message saying someone was in the house shooting people. They knocked on the door and casually inquired if this was actually happening.

The response was not what I would have expected. Wondering what changed.

 

[Looney Troons]

If you want your neighbor to be killed, I think you need to be more imaginative next time.

 

[Calooby]

I don't know about you man but I'm grateful it went so smooth. Part of the reason I'm too pussy to livestream nowadays is BECAUSE of swatting. If I were to livestream again, I'd use a VPN, not accept donations because PayPal gives out your first and last name, and try my best to not have any other identifiable shit findable.