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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 04:28:24 JST Jess👾

   SWATting would no longer be a problem at all if we abolished SWAT teams.

   Maybe having an on demand paramilitary strike force that can be deployed by anyone with a phone and a plausible sounding story was a bad idea to start with.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:58:21 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @JessTheUnstill My cynical suspicion is that much like more police create more crime, SWAT teams create excuses to use them for internal reasons. If you have a SWAT team sitting around not doing anything, do they really need all of that budget money? So SWAT teams are motivated to find ways to get used, the more the better (for their budget and prestige).

     (Plus this isn't just police, there's a whole pressure on government as a whole to be 'efficient', which often means no idle resources.)

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:58:22 JST Jess👾

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     Or at the VERY least, reserve SWAT for cases where they already have independent confirmation from multiple reliable sources that it's necessary - like a mass shooting or whatever. Otherwise, just send a couple officers to go ring the doorbell.