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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How the fuck can Swatting be such a common thing in America. I have never heard about it in any other country.

(This is, of course, a rhetorical question. I know the answer is that American police is beyond incompetent.)

Edit: Oops, read comments below

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you even try to watch the clip? It's not even in the US! This is the scary part.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

This is always felt really weird to me in general because on one hand you do have a lot of over aggressive police officers in the States but on the other hand you also have a lot of police officers who are like been through the drill and are just calm as fuck about it.

I feel like the immediate pucker factor would be nine times higher if you're in the States, but then it either goes to shit real fast or settles down real fast.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This would be a great comment if this was America...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Swatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn't watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.

Fantastic case in point.

Still I struggle to understand how it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's just the sad state of reality. People get hurt when cops don't act on this. Unfortunately many police are poorly trained and filtered out, so this does lead to many instances where people do get hurt because of them responding. Police officers need to be more strictly trained and monitored when dealing with situations like these, and the transparency of stuff like this is shockingly little.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

As others mentioned, this isn't America. Also, fraudulent calls to emergency services is a criminal offense, people who do this are usually charged and fined, or even given jail time. It's not like it's accepted or mainstream behavior, people just do stupid things and when combined with stupid cops it has led to tragic outcomes. In this video they seem to show up, which they HAVE to do, place the occupant in precautionary detainment, verify there is no crime underway, and release him. They would probably then take a statement, then the next thing would be to get a warrant for the call records and charge the dipshit that started the incident.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Its not incompetence. Its by design. The more SWAT goes out, the more they're justified. SWAT teams exist to increase the spending of police. Those expenditures go to military contractors.

Its the same reason the US is ceaselessly involved in war since WW2. For money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This isn't SWAT. Or SEK, since this is Germany.

It's just the usual armed police.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It didn't happen in the US though, so I'm not sure why that's relevant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

The US sells weapons globally. And they've overthrown whole governments that didn't fall in line with their military and economic goals.