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At least nine Seattle police officers, guns drawn, swarmed a high-rise apartment building one day this past August after getting a 911 call. The caller had said he was holding five hostages at the location, and if he didn’t get $5,000, he would kill them all. The officers swiftly took up positions ready to shoot, according to body-camera footage of the incident. On cue, the lead officer knocked on the door. “Seattle Police Department. Anyone in there?†he yelled. “Yeah, just a second,†a voice replied. Moments later, a barefoot young woman faced down a heavily armed police squad. Inside the apartment, it was just her and her cat — no hostages. The 911 call was a hoax known as “swatting,†so named because Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are often used when responding to the most serious emergency calls, like reports of hostages. The criminal prank uses cities’ emergency response systems to harass their targets by sending police rushing into unsuspecting victims’ home. Swatting remains a serious problem across the country, but as a hub for gamers and streamers, Seattle needs a solution sooner rather than later.
And on Monday, the Seattle Police Department announced it’s finally found one: Officials worked with a local tech company to repurpose an app called RaveFacility, which provides information such as floorplans and contact numbers to emergency responders for places like school and business campuses. Because the system is linked to addresses, Seattle police will now be able to use the system as a makeshift database for potential swatting victims — as long as they sign up. “For the average person, this had gone away a few years ago, but for our industry, it’s been growing larger and larger,†said James Feore, director of partner relations for the Seattle Online Broadcasters Association, a group made up of streamers. They’re often the target of swatters because their live presence on the internet allows the dangerous prank to play out live, for everyone to watch. Feore said he’ll be encouraging the several hundred members of his group in Seattle to sign up for the registry. (http://www.seattle.gov/police/need-help/swatting)
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Her kid was probably talkin shit to a hacker who go his address and was “okay keep talking shit bet the cops won’t be knocking @ ur door pretty soonâ€ðŸ‘¹ðŸ˜ˆ
Charge swatters with attempted murder or normal murder if it goes awry. Simple.
A job well done! Swatting is not a funny joke to play on someone but a dangerous and an extreme waste of time/resources! Shame on that person!!!!
When your favorite egirl tells you not to be creepy.
Swatting isn’t funny or a joke, it’s a felony.
Question one!
What is the first thing to do when entering the car?
Answer: turn the bodycam on and film to YouTube!
there's a special place in hell for swatters
At least the hostage taker was being reasonable with his demands.
Just 5 k… Hilarious
Catch the caller, put him in solitary confinement for a year, then ask if getting his ass kicked by a better gamer made it all worth it.
What are you going police when officer help chase you estoy when you the stop doing this help you out
What are you going police when officer help chase you estoy when you the stop doing this help you out
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What are you are you going police are you going officer chase you want
For some reason this looks like a fortnight FPS
Swatting should be death penalty
Meanwhile those five hostages were killed somewhere else due to no money transferðŸ˜
Swatting needs to be the same charge as attempted murder
Swatting has to stop! Ridiculous!
Why would he call 911. Your supposed to extort a large company with money
Dude sounds like a teen who just hit puberty and playing on Xbox.
This isnt the swat team. It just regular police with assault rifles and body armor
kritikal really be out here doing swat call huh? :'D
They must have likely learned from the incident in Wichita when the trigger-happy cop shot a civilian without even clarifying if he was carrying a firearm or posing a threat.
This is actually fucked. I hate the cunts that think this is funny
Ladies first!..
I want 5 dollars in 1 dollar bills asap
I love this 0:21
This may seem dumb , but …..what is swatting
Well that was a waste of 3 minutes that I’ll never get back
A grown man called that in… that's just sad at that point lmao
This is wrong; they should not be allowed to use this tactic. Even if an emergency situation it should have been verified by simply calling back the same number to see if it is in use or not a prank, if someone answered you now have your answer! There were choices other then forced unconstitutional entry to be sure…
Instead they use this Militarized tactics and justify it even over the rights of Innocent Individuals without a shred of Proof that what is really going on is correct.
What hackers say you should do to teach the system is;
ANONYMOUS; Find where the Officers live and do the same 911 call on each of them saying you seen a man with a gun in their window, over and over with fake phone call apps and have them call on each other using another Officers personal number to call 911 on them… Maybe then they'll understand why this is unacceptable and absolutely unfair.
Thank You Seattle PD for being constrained and reasonable.
When swatting caller fails
I love joking with that girl you're about to murder
Pathetic what if they had open fire and she ended up dead.
Life in prison for the rest of their natural life.
They didn't even interrogate the cat. The hostage situation remains.
1 grand for each hostage? That's cheap. Can I order two hostages please?
The person behind the swatting is a fucking asshole and swatters are fucking assholes
SWATting isn't a prank, it's attempted murder by proxy. The people who do it need to get locked up.
"hi my name's flaming bong and i want 5 grand"
At least he's to the point