swatting
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- History
- Techniques
- Countermeasures
- Laws
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Injuries or deaths due to swatting
- 2015 Oklahoma incident
- 2017 Wichita incident
- 2020 Tennessee incident
- Other notable cases
- Video game streamers
- 2013
- 2014
- 2022
- 2023
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|An FBI SWAT team during training
Swatting is a form of criminal harassment that involves deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency response team to another person's location. This is achieved by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, mass shooting, domestic violence, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as that a person is suicidal or homicidal and armed, among other things.