I can almost guarantee KPIs are what’s going on.

Each time they’re called out on a fake incident, they get to call it a successful resolution as a result of deploying their swat team. This then gives them an end of year that says “swat is highly effective in resolving situations”, which then allows a budgetary increase and more gear for the swat team.

Rinse and repeat.

I have been reading this thread for far too long, and this is the best comment. The one that explains my vast confusion as to why it could happen 47 times to one address.

Seriously, the article cites one example of four times in a single day

On one hand, you’d hope the cops stop busting down doors with guns drawn after the first time

On the other hand maybe the exploit is to swat some place twice then you can attack the residence for real to avoid the heat

> On the other hand maybe the exploit is to swat some place twice then you can attack the residence for real to avoid the heat

If you actually want to attack a residence and kill everyone in it, the police aren't going to stop you. They'll arrive long after the fact.

And if you wanted to get away with it, calling three prank SWAT calls in first is hardly going to improve the odds of it.

> Seriously, the article cites one example of four times in a single day

Which religion says that you keep coming back until you get things right? Maybe SWAT is a practitioner.

Can I please put myself on this Do Not SWAT list? I’d be interested in putting myself on a Do Not Help list, too, if possible. Any police interaction brings with it a small probability of a deadly outcome. Would be nice to be able to opt out of their “help.”

Despite was sovern citizens may say, you can not opt-out of police services in the U.S. If you're well known on the Internet, let your local polic department know you may be targeted with swatting. It's worked for people in the past to soften the response. If you haven't already been swatted it's unlikely your profile is such that you'd be tarted.

Secondly, never ever ever ever react or publicize it online.

If the swatters get no reaction they stop doing it because the whole point is to get a reaction.

Paranoid people are not allowed to opt out of police help because it is a negative externality to the neighbors and society for police to respond to reports of crime at a particular residence.

How do they know it's you?

You walk to the station in person and say "please no armed officers in my house" I guess.

How do they know it's you in the house? What if you took somebody there? What if somebody else is using your house?

Seems like just the thing to do before I drag someone into my basement. "Hey officers, my house is off limits, cya"

What if. I don't think I ever want armed officers rushing in into my house no matter what scenario I'm in.

If they can't observe a crime but still wont dare knock on my door, like, go home please?

> One may wonder what's going on in this city.

They really loved Norm

Incompetence is going on in this city.

The police here only know three things - no knock raid with automatic weapons, not pulling over reckless drivers, and shooting unarmed black men. That is all they do.

Hey, that's not true! Sometimes they use knees instead of guns!

Wait, you forget theft via civil asset forfeiture!

Overtime pay.