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Just here to point out that it's not normal for a military response to some rando calling in a hit on someone's house.
A normal response is a check by a single police car with two officers. One to knock on the door and ask questions. The other to remain with the vehicle to call in any issues.
This is a police state.
Another side benefit to The Drug War, the gift that keeps on giving.
Hundreds of thousands of people are sitting in jails and prisons right now for using. Over three hundred thousand on any given day.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2026_drugs.html
This holdover from the Nixon era gets a little worse every year. Why do we have TWENTY cars available for any random prank caller?
Are we safe yet?
Your title leaves out the part about her being swatted. Who knows what the scammer told the police.
The news story linked said that the scammer told the police she was shot and killed.
Very good use of the US taxpayers' money.
/s if not obvious
This keeps the military spending going. You sell last years models to the cops and you can use taxpayer money to buy new toys while people starve
Takes a special kind of asshole to swat a little old lady for trying to host a wholesome gaming stream for a good cause.
The fact that swating still happens just proves how much of a joke policing is in general. The fact that you can get a bunch of gun-wielding adrenaline junkies to show up somewhere, frothing at the mouth for violence, in the most spurious of ways is a damning indictment for the whole institution.
I still believe that "defund the police", is the correct choice. The whole damn thing has to go.
Yet they won't do a damn thing if someone is actually assaulting you.
Probably shoot you and the aggressor since keeping themselves safe is the priority in their training.
Kudos to granny for being so positive about it and acknowledging that the cops have to follow up on the calls they receive, but if some anonymous tipster can bring down a SWAT team on some grandma's house without any kind of check being triggered, that might indicate that there are some problems about how these issues are being handled. Other people may get out of this with much worse than a funny story to tell when two dozen cops decide to visit their house at night.
They need to respond, but they need to end the whole "Killology" mindset that American cops are trained into.
People have already died from swatting. Faster and cheaper than hiring an assassin.
Once I read they threw a flashbang through the window and it landed in a baby bed with a baby inside, and went off.
Things we don't want to know...
From the point of contact, or including time to find a good one? A good assassin can be very quick.
I'll give ya cheaper though. Good work costs good money.
Yah, send a car around first to at least glance, maybe try calling them too.
And these police organisations keep spouting “but we need more funds, to protect the community”
No, you fucking dont, you’re wasting your resources by attempting to uphold your strict quotas rather than actually serve and protect the community.
TLDW; Also, fuck YouTube ads. Can I read about this somewhere?
Get revanced. Works on stock devices, no root needed.
Tell me about it. Wish this wasn't considered a legitimate source of news. But that would require a mainstream outlet to cover it.
Even a blogger. I like to read. I don't waste my time with videos that I can't reliably skim to get to the real information and skip over garbage.
Videos take 10x longer and often aren't worth it
Just curious about why she was raided. What did the warrant say?
Turns out, it's relatively easy to convince the police to bring in a swat team to someone's house, and the police are so chomping at the bit to get out the big boy toys that they don't even question the validity of the call.
They might say it's a hostage situation, or gunplay, whatever it takes to make action happen without any real question.
Well, if they send someone to look, and it is an actual bad situation, then response time is delayed…
Of course, as soon as it is seen to be a false call, the person who did the call should be arrested as that’s illegal
Of course, as soon as it is seen to be a false call, the person who did the call should be arrested as that’s illegal
Proving beyond reasonable doubt that they weren't genuinely concerned can be tough, and mistakenly calling the police (or emergency services in general) shouldn't generally be punished or people will hesitate to call for help when they need it.
But you're right: there should be some recourse to abuse, if not criminal then civil. Of course, a lawsuit is a lot of work and possibly money you would pay up front, and there's no guarantee that you'd actually see much money if the perpetrator is a basement-dwelling neet whose meagre pocket money is immediately spent on Gacha games, trading cards or those weird plastic figures with oversized heads that some people go crazy over.
So maybe the state / police should instead pay compensation to the victim and, if it seems like a case of abuse, bring their own suit to potentially recover those damages from the caller. That would reduce the damage of mistakes, protect well-meaning callers from retribution and thus shift the cost for this security from the individual to the collective. It also allows an option to shift it back onto malicious individuals.
Of course, the police response could be more measured too, and the whole thing is contingent on the justice of the judicial system, but the latter part is true of any system and the former applies to many things the police do anyway.
I didn't watch the video (I never do, I want to read). So I assumed there was a warrant, when in fact there does not appear to have been time for that.
Police received a report of an active shooter with one shooting casualty. That is what prompted the response and that's all I wanted to know.
The fact that the response happened isn't something I personally think should be left up to the police (they shouldn't be allowed to decide which calls are valid). The fact that this was obviously an overreaction on the part of the police (that so many cops showed up) is still ridiculous in my view.
What I really want is for there to be an investigation into who made the report and preferably for the book to be thrown at them.
I don't disagree with you that this was a ridiculous display of force. But your answer didn't answer my question.
For exigent circumstances like an active shooter or hostage situation they do not need a warrant to roll up. That is what makes these kind of issues so concerning. SWATTING has been going on since streaming became more main stay for any reason or no reason at all. Anyone can do it and repercussions on the caller are almost none existent so it is seen as a "fun" way to cause mayhem.
You ever watch Police academy? You remember Tackleberry? That's basically the United States police.
Oh Eugene...
That made me laugh. Big gun virgin.
This also does nothing to answer my question. I share your opinion up to a point, but I think you missed something here. I was simply looking for factual information about the event.
Just a few days ago there was a meme of her going around. Guess some asshole saw it.