MTG swatted. Her two daughters swatted. Jack Posobiec parents swatted. Now Rick Scott, FL Senator was swatted last night. Fox News Legal Analyst Johnathan Turley gets swatted after talking about it on air. GA Lt Governor was swatted as well. MTG is saying on X many more Republican officials report incidents.
Of course, the FBI is too busy chasing grandmothers who were let into Congress to even bother investigating.
It isn't even 2024 yet, shit's already getting crazy.
Surely the cops who pull the trigger instead of investigating if the call is bogus or not should just keep being put in a position to shoot first and never bother to ask at allr?
This is a bigger indictment on the ill-used military-police state than the low-I.Q., retards who are capable of easily abusing said system. In fact, why it's so easy to abuse seems to be a question no one bothers to ask.
If SWAT actually stopped one of those "mass murders" the Left are always complaining about using the exact same tactics they use to kill innocent people like the Wichita family man (ref: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-wichita-man-killed-police-swatting-incident-seeking-25-million-n1079836) then I would be all for it, but very conveniently SWAT only seems to be 100% effective at terroising innocent civilians thus far. Yet everyone puts the blame on the pranksters instead of the people pulling the trigger.
This has been bugging me for a while.
How, exactly, are these police departments setup such that annonymous calls with zero evidence can apparenty consistently get full SWAT teams to raid residential houses? Sometimes more than once.
Kinda insane, if you think about it...
A while back I actually asked a former law enforcer about this because it has been bugging me a lot, too. I asked "Why don't they perform a sitrep before storming a civilian's house ready to shoot on sight?"
His response was and was not shocking...
To paraphrase, he simply said, "Because the system isn't designed to work that way".
That's pretty much EVERY government system at this point, most of them belong in the 1960s let alone anything this side of the millennium..
I think in the '60s they still allowed a little room for common sense.
These days it's all "we have a procedure" or "I followed policy" when the policy in question is either nonsensical or illegal on its face. It's like some shitty civil servant Nuremberg Defense.
At least there won't be any reason not to replace all these idiots with AI or robots when the technology is there. They are already blindly following a logic flowchart without any critical thinking or consideration of the larger implications of their actions, so we're not going to lose anything by just delegating the job to a robot.
Plenty of them are a little too eager to do it. This happens in the other english speaking countries were it looks to be done on purpose even in countries like the UK with strict gun control kids are getting swatted for playing with toy guns.
The conspiracy theorist in me believes that this was designed this way on purpose for the long game, and SWATTING has been normalised enough so that if the state did want to use it for nefarious purposes -- like the very info in OP's thread -- they could much more easily get away with it by blaming it on the pranksters while utilising those services to publicly execute whoever they wanted.
I'll do one better.
Warren v District of Columbia established that the police are not obligated to help anyone. For 14 hours, three people, including a 4 year old girl, were raped, beaten, and tortured because 911 and the police were incompetent and didn't give a flying fuck.
With that, they can just choose to ignore obvious bullshit calls. They just don't.
Two "o"s in "choose" ...
"chose" is past tense.
Thank you
See, that's the problem. The call comes in from a supposed eyewitness. That is "evidence." Bad actors weaponizing emergencies evidently haven't hurt the bureaucracy enough to give pause to policy.
I don't what goes on with that, but it really seems like there isn't communication between dispatchers and departments to say "by the way, we've had fake calls to this address before."
It's hearsay, not evidence.
It's the only way police are summoned when something is happening if they aren't coincidentally there.
Bingo. This goes double when it's somebody famous or a public figure.
It doesn't take a genius level intelligence to think an anonymous caller saying senator so-and-so just blew away his whole family merits some investigation before sending in a squad of heavily armed cops who are likely to shoot anyone they see on sight.
"Hey, if this guy is supposedly just shot a bunch of people how come we haven't received any 'shots fired' calls from anyone in his neighborhood?" Is a question they've apparently never asked themselves.
Context is generally out of the window in a potential emergency setting. You have to consider anything is possible.
I don't believe dispatchers/police necessarily know who lives at the addresses they are called to. And it's not like celebrities don't go nuts either.
I would think a caller would be more vague, so you can't rule out that some whacko just barged in to kill the politician's family.
Maybe they're all at work. Maybe they're all watching action movies in their soundproof private theaters. Maybe they are dealing with a bystander effect, wherein a large group of witnesses don't act/call because they all assume someone else will. Again, emergency, and anything is possible and this anonymous tip says lives are at stake.
But imagine it was a real situation that needed a SWAT team and all they sent was some info gathering cops... Your life could be in jeopardy if you're the victim.
I think instead of changing this aspect of the system, there needs to be greater emphasis on cracking down on fake calls. Attempted murder for fake SWATing people then start trying to track down the people making these calls.
Uvalde.
They have no issue pissing around and wasting time when their lives are actually in danger.
I have a feeling that the only way to deal with the matter will be to simply get rid of SWAT teams.
Why do you want paramilitary raid teams deployed based on an anonymous hearsay?
Well said. We live in a police state if all it takes is an anonymous call to have swat paramilitaries descend on your home for a raid.