Cops Get It Wrong Again .............

[EmptyTimCup]

doesn't anyone [police depts] send an investigator out anymore to 'have a chat' about activities .....

..... no lets send the SWAT team out to kick down the door

Online threat — but SWAT team raids wrong house


"The front door was open," Ira Milan, Stephanie's grandfather and the property owner, told the Evansvile Courier & Press. "To bring a whole SWAT team seems a little excessive."

Turns out, however, that the SWAT team had the address wrong.

The Courier & Press said the police had been investigating "anonymous and specific online threats made against police and their families on the website topix.com," and had obtained a search warrant for the Milan house. An Evansville police officer said one of the threats that came from the Milan household mentioned explosives and said, "Evansville is going to feel the pain."

Whoever made these threats, the Courier & Press said, likely remotely routed them through the Milan's open Wi-Fi connection, which means it could have been used from an outside location. It's possible the Milans, or specifically Stephanie, were targets of "swatting," a particularly nasty prank by which the perpetrator — often through hoax 911 calls — tricks a SWAT team into raiding a house of his choosing.

Last July, Parry Aftab, a prominent Internet security advocate, became the victim of such an attack. Police swarmed her northern New Jersey home after pranksters placed a 911 call through a computer that cloned her number and said a man had killed four people and was holding another hostage in her house.

I am sure some SWAT apologist will be along and lecture about how it was not Po Po's fault, people should not be running 'OPEN' Wireless


how about an INVESTIGATION before sending SWAT Cowboys out to kick down the door ...