A call to police for a crime at a certain address, and when the police arrive, the location has no crime activity at all, and the owners tell police they did not place the call.
The idea is to embarrass the residents who the police called on.
It is disrupting to the residents, and a waste of police resources.
Thank you for the explanation.
And dangerous too
The ‘intent’ isn’t to embarrass; it is to kill. Swatting is attempted murder.
No. The idea is to have something go wrong and the police kill everybody at the SWATed address.