A Word About Swatting

self | J.Johnson

[silent majority rising]

The perps need to suffer consequences, so in the case above, I hope that he sued the crap out of his ex and saddled him/her with a judgment that would take 20% of their monthly salary for several years. In the case of the new swatters, make it an automatic event to sue the hell out of them whenever they are discovered.

[I want the USA back]

Every instance of “swatting” should be investigated. The perps need to spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[Roccus]

Then you in a heap of trouble, boy.

[circlecity]

“ the perp is probably somewhere in the vicinity of the target, or in contact with someone who is.‘

Not necessarily. I remember reading about a kid in Canada who would get mad at people he was playing video games with online from America and have them swatted. Apparently he was able to get their address through the game or chat platform they were using. He was very prolific.

[eyeamok]

The way to stop it is by Mandating that every Public Servant be Swatted annually. Maybe then the no knock armed raids will end.

[T.B. Yoits]

Swatting is multiple counts of attempted murder and law enforcement needs to treat it as such.

The only differences between swatting and sending over hired killers is that the caller isn't paying them and it's a gamble not a guarantee.

[Erik Latranyi]

The goal of Swatting is to kill conservatives by using the police.

The left hopes a middle of the night police call to the house of a conservative would end up with a gunfight, a mistake or anything that results in deaths.

IF the police get a call that a suspected murder or other violent crime is in progress, they have the right to search your premises.

[flamberge]

No phone needed and they used a VPN to prevent tracing.

Website access through a VPN is still traceable.

It is time-consuming and gets expensive. You might start out with a list of 10000 subscribers to the VPN and a couple of trainees doing the initial screening. With a few basic search tools and a dweeb who is good at python scripting, you can cut down that list to 150 people fairly quickly.

It goes even faster if the Website host provider and the VPN service are cooperating with your department. Most of them are going to do so. Some of them will require nothing more than a phone call to the right contact.

Or you can pay a commercial service to generate a "specialized marketing prospect list using custom parameters". No warrants required at all. Just a current business account. You do need a skilled analyst who knows how to define the selection parameters. It is an art of wizardry. In an age of mass-market data collection, it can be shockingly effective.

Why bother to create a police surveillance state when private corporations will do all the work for you?

Ultimately you end up with a list of a dozen suspects for whom you will need to arrange field interviews. You will probably need warrants for that. You send a pair of agents to each candidate. The one who flinches or tries to run is assumed to be your perpetrator. Put them under intense scrutiny. You will find something to justify charges and maybe even an arrest.

Chalk up another success. Make sure there is a press release. Commendations for all and a promotion for the supervisor.

But this much effort is normally expended only in cases where the victim is an approved somebody of importance to the authorities. Ordinary citizens, or opponents of the current régime are unlikely to receive this level of attention.

[TBP]

And with cell phones, you don’t have to have the same area code to be local.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

I’m normally not a fannof making everything a federal crime, so I say this with reluctance:

Congress should pass a law on “High Profile Hoaxes,”
which are knowingly reporting an event that didn’t happen; to intimidate or endanger someone with significant influence or in positions of authority, with the intent to punish or coerce behavioral changes beneficial to the reporting party, directly or via political cause.

Along those lines.

Swatting in particular is a mandatory charge of Attemped Murder. For other hoaxes, charge them with whatever law under which charges would have been brought if the hoax was real.

Establish a special branch of The US Marshals to investigate just those charges.

Etc...

Yeah, what do I know.

[arthurus]

I remember a case of someone being SWATted twice in a year.

[arthurus]

SWATting is, in fact, premeditated attempted murder.

[arthurus]

But cell phone calls are traceable easily. Throwaway phones are harder, though, to pin to an individual..

[Big Red Badger]

Good Dope,
Soothing the Po Po,
Lay Low and inform/enlist All Players to identify the
RAT !
.

[Big Red Badger]

Dang,,
.
Wise as Serpants
And
Gentle as Doves.
.

[StAnDeliver]

"Not necessarily. I remember reading about a kid in Canada who would get mad at people he was playing video games with online from America and have them swatted. Apparently he was able to get their address through the game or chat platform they were using. He was very prolific."

Curtis "Probably 0nion"? That dude should be in an American supermax gouging out his eyes with a plastic spoon.

[TBP]

They need to feel the pain for it.

[flamberge]

I remember a case of someone being SWATted twice in a year.

There are certain video game and entertainment executives in southern California who get swatted every week.

The local police departments keep special notes (public safety notices) about these addresses and have protocols in place to verify the situation before sending in SWAT teams.

But they don't catch the swatters. Most of them are out of state or even out of the country. This is one of the few arenas where the Federales have better capabilities than the locals. Too bad they have other priorities.

[joma89]

Thanks for the rundown. Worth the time.