It seems to me that the concept of swatting requires a not-to-competent shoot-first-ask-questions-later police force. If the US police force uniquely has these qualities, it seems prudent to reorganise it.
Part of the problem is that there is no "US police force" to overhaul. There are federal police (FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, TSA, etc), state police, county police, local police, sheriffs, military police, special task forces and more. Reforming any one group is a big job, reforming the whole system is borderline impossible without a revolution or something.
No one body oversees these 18,000 different police forces.
But much more prevalent are 'legal' search and seizure actions against political opponents and activists.
It also requires good chances the person accused is armed, it's the two sides of the equation that makes it happen more often badly in America.
It can happen, but that would just mean some lost the from the police
They'll just send it out a pair of cops to check out the situation with care.
US policing is different because the risks are different.
Moreover, if there's a report of a hostage situation or gun violence, there is a chance that the situation is real and unfolding live.
These are two very different lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_office...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officer...
Keep in mind this doesn't include non-fatal injuries.
You can see the policy paper of the International Association of Chiefs of Police:
https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/IACP%20F...
The IACP has been a strong supporter of the assault weapons ban since 1992, and our membership has approved several reauthorizations of support in the years since. The membership took this action because we, as law enforcement executives, understand that the criminal use of semiautomatic assault weapons pose a grave risk to our officers and the communities they are sworn to protect.
or
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/police-organizations...
Concealed firearms are what terrify police, so why not strictly license concealable firearms?
Obviously there’s a continuum here, and this end includes “likely to be eaten by a bear” in some parts of America.
Feels a bit disingenuous when more cops died of C19 in 2022 than from gunfire - 60 deaths in 2022 compared with 74 for C19. Also US cops killed almost 1100 people in 2022 - I think they have the better side of the 18-1 ratio here.
(Also taking the first 10 as a sample - 2 were off-duty and 1 was shot by his own colleagues which isn't really "policing is risky", more "free roaming guns are generically risky".)
It's obvious that US cops kill way more people than in other countries, but also that they get killed more often. They are more likely to kill because the US is designed to be a much more dangerous country than most, but also because they receive a lot less training, and training more focused on shooting, than in most countries.
I'm struggling to find statistics more recent than 2019, but perhaps skipping the anomalous COVID years is for the best. Anyway, in 2019 [0], 89 officers died in the line of duty, of which just under half (44) were due to gun violence. The number of full time police officers in 2019 was in the region of 700k [1]. That's a fatality rate of under 13 per 100,000 - certainly higher than the national average of 3.6, but far less than jobs highlighted as "occupations with high fatal work injury rates" [2] (who are mostly tradespeople or people that operate heavy machinery).
[0] https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-st...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...
[2] https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2023/how-a-volkskrant...