[Skooz]

SWATTING is attempted murder. The perp should be charged accordingly.

[T.B. Yoits]

SWATTING is attempted murder. The perp should be charged accordingly.

It's multiple counts - one count for each SWAT officer sent multiplied by the number of people in the house. 10 officers responding to a false call with 3 people in the house would be 30 charges of attempted murder against the caller because each of the 10 officers could have killed 3 people.

If I hired two hitmen a week apart, it's not one charge of attempted murder, it's two. That they showed up on the same day doesn't make it one charge.

[fr_freak]

SWATTING is attempted murder. The perp should be charged accordingly.

At some point, these police agencies have to take responsibility for having a system that allows this sort of thing. They are duped so often that they have become a threat to decent people in this country. By now, they should be more reluctant to just go charging in with their quasi-military meatheads every time some outlandish claim is made over an untraceable telephone.