A New Jersey state legislator who is sponsoring a bill against swatting, has himself been swatted:
According to a report by NJ.com, Moriarty received a phone call at his home on Saturday from a police officer asking if everything was okay; the assemblyman was then informed that someone had anonymously called in a report of a shooting at the home. He was then told to describe his clothing and step outside, where he saw a crowd of officers armed with "helmets, flak jackets and rifles."
There was no mention if the legislator questioned the over-militarizing of the police or no-knock raids...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Soybean on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:34PM
> The cops resort to overwhelming force without understanding the situation
It's OK, they are just following procedure. And sadly, we can't really expect anything more of them than to follow procedure because procedure is what gives them CYA.
The problem is "procedure" was designed for one specific worst-case movie-plot scenario - psyscho killer who will immediately murder his hostages once he finds out the cops are outside. I don't really know, but my gut says that's probably the rarest actual scenario in real-life.