The Crime of Swatting

Swatting is the act to trick an emergency service like 9-1-1 into dispatching an emergency response based on the false report. Depend on the how serious situation the fake report claims to be, the operators can send one police officer or SWAT unit.  "Sometimes swatting is done for revenge, sometimes as a prank. Either way, it is a serious crime, and one that has potentially dangerous consequences." Misusing 9-1-1 service can result in a misdemeanor or a felony in the U.S. Swatting cause massive disorder in public peace and potentially hurt or kill someone involved. Swatting has used in the home of celebrities like Tom Cruise, Taylor Swift, and Clint Eastwood as a prank and on several live-streamers as a prank. To swat someone, the callers need the victims’ personal information like their address and phone number, then use caller ID spoofing technology when calling 9-1-1. “Spoofing” technology which lets the callers to mask their own numbers. People who make these false calls seem to be credible and they have no trouble convincing 9-1-1 operators they are telling the truth. Swatting is a serious crime as the prank callers cause taxpayers’ money to be wasted and the emergency response units’ time is wasted. It is blame to place some the on the police as some believe that they are responding to strongly. Swatting do bring up an issue about America's militarization of the police.

Sources: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/september/the-crime-of-swatting-fake-9-1-1-calls-have-real-consequences/the-crime-of-swatting-fake-9-1-1-calls-have-real-consequences  and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting  

Example of Swatting check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-uRFIr3mA about 6:30 is when the police enter the picture.