Swatting
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swatting-177-8962650
title:
Swatting
text:
Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is suicidal or homicidal and may be armed, among other things. The term is derived from the law enforcement unit SWAT, a specialized ty
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Criminal harassment tactic
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
date created:
2008-02-11T22:02:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T08:37:39Z
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13
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