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No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
This shit needs to change. This has been a problem for too many years now.
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For real. Maybe people will take it seriously now that we've gone from the swatting live steamers to swatting representatives and elected officials.
This incidence of swatting is literally terrorism.
I get that, but we tend to not take terrorism very seriously when it's domestic terrorism.
When it's right wing domestic terrorism
Yep. When it’s lefties chaining themselves to a fence to protest nuclear weapons we beat them half to death before giving them life in prison.
Yeah. When I first heard about swatting you heard about arrests. Now it seems like the cops don't give a shit.
When I was in school you'd get a bomb threat in the county once a year or so but they always caught them. How are police so inept now?
Because our phone regulations are absolute shit now and thus it’s much easier to hide this shit with everything now.
This is the real answer. Arrest the spoofers. Anyone can vpn and spoof a phone call. It's why I don't answer my phone anymore
I don't answer my phone either. I have a special Ring tone for the family, that's it. At work I got moved to a new location and asked me if I needed my phone. I said no and haven't used the office phone since. I email companies and setup in person meetings or teams meetings. There's no need for a phone at work if one can just do teams.
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When I was in school you’d get a bomb threat in the county once a year or so but they always caught them.
I'm actually surprised about that. Maybe you went to school at a different time from me? I graduated in 1995. A couple of times a year, some kid (probably) would call in a bomb threat so they could get out of a test or whatever and they never got caught. We had a pay phone right outside the school, which didn't help.
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Can’t have swatting problems if you don’t have swat teams.
Seriously, there should be a major push for police departments to de-emphasize swat and stop executing no-knock warrants.
They’ll get whoever did this. The feds don’t take getting messed with lightly
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Its crazy to me that people think its the telephone companies that need more regulations here and not the police. SWAT teams shouldn't be going in guns blazing on anonymous calls and any injury or death should be solely their responsibility. By all means try to prosecute the people calling in the first case for misuse of emergency services, if you can identify them, but we all know who pulled the fucking trigger. Police can't both get to decide that they get to selectively enforce the law and then take no responsibility when the injure or kill innocent people.
Police can't both get to decide that they get to selectively enforce the law and then take no responsibility when the injure or kill innocent people.
~~Supreme~~ Extreme Court: That's where your wrong, bucko.
Telecoms do need more regulation. They can't trace these spoofed calls. There will be no arrests.
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The scary thing is the only reason he was safe and didn’t get swatted is because he already had armed guards protecting him.
Die Hard has John McClane making an anonymous report of terrorists, which is then responded to by a single cop who drives by to see if there's anything going on.
When did that change?
When police started buying military surplus and find it's not exciting if it sits in an armory. Here's a blog post that links a good Last Week Tonight from 2014 about it.
When all you have is an armored vehicle, high-powered rifles, and body armor, every problem looks like a brown-skinned terrorist.
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9/11
Damn I forgot
We had 1 rule.
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It's wild to me that when the phone companies need to bill for a phone call they know exactly who to bill for it, but when it's something like this everyone is helpless because you can't track these things
Yeah, like did someone use the Captain Crunch whistle to make this call from a payphone?
Blueboxed it.
Love how esoteric this joke is. The only people who get this are nerds old enough to remember or people who watched that one Tom Scott video about phreaking.
Anyone else used to read 2600 magazine?
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I've changed my mind about the death penalty. What is swatting if not an attempt to have someone executed by the state?
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