Not ever being a criminal I don’t know what “swatting” If it’s phone calls, shut down the phones. If it’s bodies herding in your yard, get a trained attack dog to release.
And if you release dogs on the police they will shoot them. Actually they may if you don't release them.
How a SWATting works is someone calls 911 and reports that someone at a certain address has flipped their lid. Murder, rape, hostage taking, talking back to mothers, it is chaos! Get the police there right away!
The police show up, usually in full tactical gear because they expect to arrive to find a fire fight in progress. The bewildered home occupants are subjected to the police at minimum pounding on their door, at worst a dynamic entry with tear gas and flash grenades.
People can get killed. People have been killed. In my humble opinion people who do this kind of thing should be charged with attempted murder at the least.
Swatting is when some claims to be you, calls 911 and reports a false serious situation with weapons, in the hopes cops will bust in and hurt the target of the swat.
They hope the unsuspecting people believe their house is being broken into, they arm themselves to defend, and then the cops shoot them and their pets in the heat of the moment.
And your assumption of people not knowing urban terms relating to crimes not being criminals, is just plain flawed.