Bomb threat reactions are normally justified, but swatting reactions (and police reactions in general) are still too violent and ineffective. Not to mention that technology is making spoofing of threats easier and easier.
I’m also not so worried about SWATting being possible - I want a ratio of times where the extreme response was warranted versus unwarranted.
> By 2019, there were an estimated 1,000 swatting incidents domestically each yeay
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-formed-national-dat...
In any case, I think we can agree that militarized police breaching through a door and going in with guns drawn like they're going to assassinate Bin Laden all due to a phone call is dumb and shouldn't happen
They should send a drone to look into the window, or turn one of the dozen devices in each room into a microphone, or perform any kind of other investigation first before they do that.