This is ridiculous.
The ADL says that 1 out of 9 teens have been a victim of a false-alarm SWAT raid. I know the US has over-militarized its police force but…come on.
And reading their source, it actually says that 5% of adults say they’ve been swatted in their lifetime.
I’ve been missing out.
Sometimes the numbers are staggering because society is deeply in denial.
Thays how ot was with sexual abuse of children in churches.
1 in 9 is pretty insane, if that's actually reality there's gotta be some extreme compounding factors influencing it.
Even if it was 1:10,000 you'd see like 4200 teens swatted. Back of the napkin math would mean roughly 1:10 SWAT calls are pranks. I kinda doubt that too.
1 in 9 lunacy. If 1 in 9 teens got swatted it would be a huge deal. (for a good time let chatgpt + wolfram do all the calculations and start comparing to the 240 million 911 calls made each year... you'd be looking at 1 in 100 911 calls being swat pranks....
The other explanation is that the data is heterogeneous but then that means we have an aggregation error. That also isn't great either, especially since it means the problem is potentially even larger, but only affecting a specific group.
Either way, not good.
> Over the past year, online hate and harassment rose sharply for adults and teens ages 13-17.
> What might be behind these alarming results? Hateful rhetoric from political leaders, celebrities, and other public figures often spurs online hate, just as online hate can often spur offline harm.
> The annual online hate and harassment survey of American adults is conducted on behalf of ADL by YouGov, a public opinion and data analytics firm. The survey examines American adults’ experiences with and views of online hate and harassment. A total of 2,139 completed surveys were collected [...]
Nope.
https://snipboard.io/BCkmKf.jpg literally what it says on the tin. The only issue I can imagine is that the sample size is 550 respondents and study recruitment was biased ("hey wanna fill out a survey about online harassment?" imagine the odds you'll respond if you've been swatted vs. if you haven't had any negative experiences; and/or the link was shared among specific communities).
Online self-reporting is also prone to multiple responses from the same person, straight up prank entries, or honest misreadings of questions.
Edit: also, 13% says they "were exposed to" the topic of QAnon on the Internet in the past 12 months, 29% to anti-vax movement, etc. I guess the remaining three quarters just hasn't used the Internet outside of chatting with their family and looking up recipes? Interesting study on how not to run studies.
¹ PDF download (:/) https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/2023-06/Online-... page 23