Police Militarization meets Hacker Culture: Swatting
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In recent years, a small amount of hackers and gamers have been anonymously reporting fake hostage situations, shootings, and other violent crimes designed to send elite police units, like SWAT teams, to unsuspecting people at their residences.
Swatting is a dangerous and expensive prank, which is easy to pull off. Swatters are utilizing easily accessible technology to mask or even alter the ID during calls to 911 dispatchers. With SWAT teams and paramilitary gear becoming the norm across small town America, these calls have predictably chaotic results.
Despite the hyper-vigilance of America's law enforcement, authorities still struggle to defend themselves from the unlikeliest of threats - tech-savvy teenagers. Police militarization meets hacker culture as VICE News investigates the dangerous crime of swatting.
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Its not a hacker culture. Its just kids who accidentally figuring out where someone lives
a prank is banging your boys wife and getting her pregnant this is just mean
wtf?
@@NessieTheCatt hahaha sounds like some shit me and my twisted friends would say lol
Gangs, riots, cops, mass shootings, cops getting shot at, and the scary guy on the street sexually harassing your girlfriend after trying to panhandle money out of you last week. Taking a stand against police having swat gear doesn't fit into a decent respectable liberal agenda. People have a problem with weed being illegal, and it causes too many people to be on the wrong side of the law,....but the law is there and what it is for a lot of good reasons.
This isn’t a “prank” it’s a felony
Morgan W you’re an idiot
@@MrPrush-ji4gs r/woooosh. BIATCH
@@MrPrush-ji4gs TELL THAT TO THOSE WHO DIED CAUSE OF SWATTING THEY MUST BE CHARGED WITH FELONY
@@cedarbeez5003 how is he woo
@m s how
The fact that even professional cybersecurity experts refer to them as 'Scriptkiddies' is amazing
They are, theyre doing nothing but using preexisting techniques to do horrible things. The denouncing name is given to them to try and denote them from continuing in their idiocy
@@thatonepriest69 do what?
@Arkeos1 well at least the dude called em what they actually are... hate people referring to these people who download programs as "hackers" its a disgrace to all real hackers...
Mactav 141 anyone could do it if i had your first and last name anyone could find your address in less than a hour
@@reseed4950 That's not always the case
imagine a member of SWAT team being swatted
You just gave me a grate idea man thanks I didnt think of that
@@twistedcaprisun1 i really hope you're not gonna commit a federal crime
He's too mentally challenged to know what a crime is
@@twistedcaprisun1 lol
b a m b o o z l e d
"Celebrities have been hit, and now some *innocent* people are being targeted as well." Anchor man randomly throwing shade at celebrities lol
He wasn't throwing shade, he was just saying random people are being hit too. It's just odd phrasing
yeah i caught that to hahah,
I always knew celebrities are just aliens in disguise
@@ChesterCheatin joke
It would help if swatters weren't referred to as "pranksters". They're criminals, that's it.
And it would help if they were found and shot in the face for laughs
@Marmite Lying to 911 is a crime, you've got to "hack" a lil bit to obfuscate your identity. But yeah I agree calling it hacking is giving it too much credit - quite simply it's a criminal prank.
@Marmite I believe the word you are looking for is script kiddy
@@LordPerique except they are not even that sophisticated, they are using spoofing which is free and or cheap and super easy to do with a service. at least script kiddies utilize tools that perform some sort of hacking and the tools are still not easy to use for a noob, this whole title is click bait. if anything it's phreaking or phone boxing, had friends who used to do this with a lineman's handset in the middle of the night to a neighbor who always called the cops on them for harmless shit. aside from wasting the time of the Leo's it was kinda funny. still a crime
Marmite its attempted murder via cops so no it's not a prank, its a social experiment
These VPN commercials are getting way way way out of control...
@@iadrien4715 jesus christ i was being sarcastic m8 xd
Mr Oliver Fox I’ll just delete that comment
@@iadrien4715 xd its fine
Damnit, now I can't see the comment
Mr Oliver Fox At least it isn’t a planned parenthood one...
They can pay for thousands of dollars equipment. And can't pay for an I.T team.
@i hate anime like vietnam
@i hate anime now you haven't gotten 2 things
@i hate anime cuz I hate anime
@i hate anime do you like trains?
@i hate anime this poor guy who wrote the initial comment must feel very strange
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Astonishing that the media didn't notice until after celebrities got targeted
I know, right? I for one don't give even 1% of a shit when it comes to 'celebrities'.
Sad right
I think pbs news hour covered it
I'm not surprised at all, no one ever gives a fuck about us average joe's.
seriously this has been happening to twitch live streamers for awhile
I would personally put a HUGE ASS sign inside my front door area that says something like "I get swatted due to live-streams, I have no guns, don't shoot me."
the hell would that do
they dont care they come for blood and they like the adrenaline...send these guys to afghanistan they will be begging to comeback to their mamas in less than a year
@@MastaChiefa99 and when ever has that happened
Why not just have an entire door saying that
Some streamers tell the police they are a target for swatting.
They put a camera on the rifle so they could show you how many times he flagged his teammates.
VICE should've put Keemstar's face as an enabler of this crime.
donutranger True, true.
Derek Welk, keemstar leaked and doxxed some kids IP during a stream and told his viewers to swat the kid so he doesn’t get in trouble.
Rando guy so he doesn’t get in trouble????????
Theboss47 yep.
How to get SWATTED in 2019. Play just one match in Black Ops 2.
Best thing is to get a vpn. I have been told many times i was getting booted offline. Never happened because of how my network is set up. The public shouldnt have to get the protections but, its becoming neccessary until we have a break through in Intelligence but thats not gonna happen with everyone throwing a hissy fit because he government saw their calendar for their yoga class. The people want the government to find people yet dont want them to find people. And create policies for the tools but the public needs to understand we need the tools.
A_Stranger2256 Lookup *The Xbox Criminal* you idiot.
Play games Just losse every time, dont kill any one No body will get hurt
@@vatsal9005 lmao
@@James-qn3wi true he is good at trolling n vpn
Man this is freaky. Children leading armed men.
+Wulfsok Politicians are just children in suits...
+George Bush LMFAO
+Wulfsok "Dude it's just a prank"
+Samiliito o.O your stupid
Michal Gaik Are you actually serious? Take a moment and think. If you're actually this fucking dumb then gtfo.
I love when they showed charlie sheen they showed a mug shot hahah
Nimbus o 7:56 😎😂
@@user-kx2zv7tg3u bruh
@@user-kx2zv7tg3u Google
@@user-kx2zv7tg3u then why didnt you just not ask and look it up in the first place? Fucking idiot
Charlie is used to it
Imagine raging so hard that you swatted a kid that beated you at call of duty.
beated
Or just because your trans and exists!🤔
"How dare our Police and SWAT Team be prepared for possibly dangerous situations!?! I think we should not be prepared, and rather we should have our Police go out there with toothpicks and water guns! I shall not stand for this! This is an outrage!" *-75% of the comments in a nutshell...*
TheSuperDweebWhoPlaystheDigitalThingsKnownasGamesWhoisAlsoaHumanoidBeingWhoLivesonthePlanetEarth Your name is fucking awesome
TheSuperDweebWhoPlaystheDigitalThingsKnownasGamesWhoisAlsoaHumanoidBeingWhoLivesonthePlanetEarth It's more of the argument about using due process or common sense and having a patrol car check the situation out in the first place. You know, even just calling the house then following up in person.
Adam G Okay? I was just making a comment that is supposed to make fun of all the people whining about the SWAT's equipment and tools.
TheSuperDweebWhoPlaystheDigitalThingsKnownasGamesWhoisAlsoaHumanoidBeingWhoLivesonthePlanetEarth It's mainly about inefficiency. They're spending all their money on equipment that largely goes unused so they're just waiting to use it in anticipation. Note that USA has the second highest prisoners per capita in the world despite the fact that it has a murder rate higher than Iran. You don't see the nordic countries pulling stunts like these.
TheSuperDweebWhoPlaystheDigitalThingsKnownasGamesWhoisAlsoaHumanoidBeingWhoLivesonthePlanetEarth this retarded shit only happens in chimpmerica
"How dare they do their job and follow procedure to deal with a potentially dangerous situation. How dare they not psychically know it was all a prank." -Half of the fucking idiots in the comments.
Exactly
Exactly what u said, bunch of dumbfucks in the comment
You forgot to spell it all with terrible grammar.
These comments are left by little kids that live on the internet. They have no idea about real life or how it works. One day when they get the nerve to step out of their moms basement the real world will hit them like a ton of bricks.
You forgot to add that the same brain donors would be the first to point the finger if a situation requiring specialist teams didnt have them available Theres no pleasing some folk, haters will always hate
Millions for weapons but nothing for cyber security. Insane.
they themselves hire those pranksters, they can track down anyone but can't track the pranksters?? Its just to instill fear in citizen, you are not safe, a single call from a complete stranger and we will hunt you!!! We need Intellectual freedom to progress in life, fear inhibits that freedom!!
Cyber security? Number spoofing is like VPN. Once the crime has been done, the investigation starts. First they need to identify the company who is providing the anonymity, then get court papers to legally extract information about this criminal from the company (because you cant just ask them), and only then you can actually start making moves towards this person, but often that is just the first layer because of fake identities and proxies.
Gulshan Chaurasia are you joking
It's not that easy to track cyber crime. contrary to popular belief, throwing money doesn't fix problems.
ΞΝCΞLΛDUS “Throwing money won’t fix cyber crimes so let’s just spend $400,000 on an armored vehicle we will never need.”
i love the awkward silence after the reporter asked if the swat team ever used there special equipment.
emphasized the “yet” pretty hard lol what does this guy think is going to happen
@@GoldenPoopD bank robbery, hostage situations, shootouts
@@gabe8168 We have the guys with that training and equipment sitting higher up at regional level. If something happens here, the local cops are supposed to check the immediate situation and call on the regional tactical unit if they can't deal with it. We don't have tactical units sitting in reserve out in every town. It's better to have a few national bomb squads instead of many little local bomb squads. The authorities dealt with a wave of robberies a few decades ago, and decided that sieges are awful. The doctrine after that was to push less. You're not supposed to shove cops into situations unless absolutely necessary under that doctrine.
@@tewsgcdcfgechk908 Most small towns here rarely have the sort of situations that require the special tactics squad. And everything you want to do you have to take from some other budget post. We're still getting lost people in the woods, car theft, drunks fighting outside McD and the student festival to oversee. We call on the national bomb squad instead of maintaining our own.
@@gabe8168 civil war seems more up to his speed
Can’t believe they turned rainbow six siege into a real thing
@@jakeallison6659 r/woosh
agentroadkill can’t believe they copied Rainbow Six Seige
Jake Allison r/wooosh
Easy bait
@@jakeallison6659 this is an old and unfunny joke now
I wish I could get as many grants for college as these cops do for armored vehicles.
You and who's money?
+Oscar Brogden im not from the us why are people against free education?
Roy Poud I am paying for my own college. Going to school full time and work full time.
+Oscar Brodgen, I'm just saying that if there was all this money lying around then give it to college students rather than useless thing the police don't need.
Roy Poud, what do you mean?
He lying about using the robot knowing damn well it just sit in the closet
p boss yeah bomb threats aren’t common, but that robot would come in handy if one over accrued
It’s ether the robot, and have minimal human danger, or a bomb suit which while cheeper, means higher danger pay, and lawsuits if someone gets horribly injured or killed
That’s me when I say that I wear clothes my mom bought me ahha
Ace21 Bomb suits we used in the army were about 80-90k a piece
Colin Overbey some of those bomb robots can get up to 200k although yea some do sell for 10k depends on what they get
"S-imple, W-idely A-vailable T-echnology" SWAT. Anyone else pick up on that? Haha 0:58
Ok that was fucking smart
You don’t cause Giornos theme *YOU ARE GIORNOS THEME*
Ok, I'm from Iraq and commenting to tell my fellow Americans.... THIS IS WHAT I USED TO FUCKING SEE IN IRAQ! DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR COUNTRY!
***** I know if the iraqi kid marwan made some white racial slurs isn't right! But please open your mind for a minute and think from his p.o.v! He's seen his country go to shit by im assuming from what i have seen and being a Persian middle eastern/ non -arab myself is a bunch of racist white and other people....well fucking up his country and being extremely racist toward's arab's! And me as a middle eastern get it too even though im not arab and were from complete different ethnic backgrounds and race culture ect......A lot and lot of racist shit about middle eastern's or muslims on a few crazy 1% of the bad people that do shit. We get generalized all the time! And i can only think of how much worse he get's it as a arab! Because us persian's don't get it near as bad as they do. And to be honest im sure he could agree persians and arab's for the most part hate each other and My country and his went to war but im going put that aside, and say its not right that hes doing it but once it's a thing you get a bunch of white people making racial slur's at him and fucking his country to shit....What do u expect! And again you seem like a kind person to understand.?? Yea it doesn't make it right but walk a mile in his shoes! And you might understand why he feels that way. And for me i got to a point of just seing all the shit, agian and even though we Persian/Iranians don't get along with arab's or afghani's for the past history, war's,religion,ect... i was feeling the same way because my country is borders with theres and there is alot of shit in war that happened that was just not right! and see that as human being! Anyway i'm done talking about it but was Just saying.........Peace!
***** 1. Okay who never said he was American 2. He only said he was Iraq 3. He Can be a Iraqian and be a American Citizen and you can also be American and Iraqian.
How is Iraq I've been wondering about it
i'm truly scared of what cops have become. But i am sure as hell will rebel if needed...which is probably soon lol
Yep
the new rainbow six siege update looks good
Looks good, but it still has the shittiest netcode of the century and a nightmare of a matchmaking system.
Ready or not looks better and more realistic
Needs more Tachanka
😂😂
Black beard has retired because he got nerfed too many times
"Hackers" lmfao i got swatted by a 10yr on bo2 once
@@ethanvu3851 Lmao
@@ethanvu3851 xD
@@ethanvu3851 Cant wait for his Mighty 1 inch destroyer
Excuse me, I was 7.
Lol bo2 was the hot spot for hackers and swatters been in a couple games were someone swatted someone else
It’s always crazy when you see your own town on vice
You live in a very safe town. I'm from chiraq 😅😅😅
Well stay safe! People are dying everyday
Has anyone ever heard of the story about the boy who cried wolf?
Child labor in the dark ages, sending your children out alone to face the wolves.
Sorry, but police aren't going to stop responding to calls saying that people are going to shoot others.
Police are really just humans working for the govenment.
No, that's all wrong.
We are lions you are wolves. Busted!
10:48 "Celebrity homes have been hit by it and now some innocent victims in the news in suburban New York..." I love it how he makes it sound like the celebrities aren't innocent.
For once they're innocent though, btw what make's it sound like they aren't innocent?
Hotsex spy Well... wouldn't celebrities count as innocent victims? I just found the wording strange that they had to make the distinction between celebrities and innocent victims. Couldn't they have said something like, "general public" instead?
GoodwillWright I guess so.
GoodwillWright Now let's think about the crime a bit,,, It does demonstrate and provide a platform for presenting a "Fear the big bad policeman" message. Not unlike Terrorism. Could an additional telephone line be used to verify the source of the call? Of course! A computerized dialer could handle it in .6 seconds. A busy signal would indicate a call from the same source as the caller I.D. A ring tone would indicate a potentially bogus call. A simple PLL circuit could tell the difference and provide this information in about a second. The telephone company used to publish a document known as a Cross Bar manual. A few pages in and you would realize that the police can actually listen in on any phone at any time since the early 70's. The telephone companies ANI billing computer is not connected to the caller I.D. system and retains the real source and destination of all calls even after they are over. This swatting crime happens only because people someone somewhere wants the general public to remain ignorant of these capabilities. Also the police might need a valid excuse for a warrant-less search and then say oops not my fault. Is real swatting a myth? Maybe.... And maybe a crime is allowed to be committed because they want to set a trap. The swatter would need to know the victims address, phone number and none of those previously mention checks would be utilized. Celebrities do get stalked. The question is by whom.
I was also thinking that XD
4:26 I love how the graphic of the enemy on the cop's target is of a Bubba in a wife beater 😂
The swat team saved me, my little brother and mom from my ex step dad when was 4. Im still very grateful for them.
And this is why you should use a VPN
svxnger I had a vpn And my old buddy still booted me off every time we lost a game. Xbox 360 days were hard times
They can still resolve ur ip and if they cant they contact the vpn providers
Logan maybe for VPN but whatcha know about a VPS you sweaty greaseball
@@AOBeezy A vps is just servers in servers, then comes the hypervisor and separates it. :) Edit: you can boot them independently but they can still be backtracked because once they hit the first server they see theres another. It all depends on how good it is. P.s im not very good at this shit so this all ik.
Hey guys is it ok if I swat you ok?
I swatted my fly
Savage
LOL
Who else imagined a entire swat team just surrounding a fruit fly and like blue brothers
He got swatted cause he beat the other kid in a call of Duty game 😂
this happens at my school senior year and it was incredibly traumatizing especially after the school had previous threats and other schools in the district had shootings
counter terrorists win
top kek
nick Swaggington counter terrorism is just that terrorism. The definition of terrorism is NOW. The act of using terror to sway someone's beliefs acting outside of the government. So when the government does it it's just politics
How's a tank,robots and high powered "assault" rifles make the cops response time better? If anything all this military style training is teaching them to eliminate the enemy
nick Swaggington sneaky peaky lhike
S E C U R E T H E B I O H A Z A R D C O N T A I N E R
"I'm going to swat you because you beat my K/D" *Snort*
Luke West Idiots...
***** Thank you for understanding every trouble in forever
Darksydephil?
The way I combat this issue is, I have never played online games. Except command and conquer tiberium alliances, but that was on my home pc. People used to play games, literally, together, in the same room... Im old school, I buy games I can play the levels till you reach the end, or complete the story or whatever. I think in a lot of ways the whole world needs to unplug!!
thx boomer for your useless contribution
Yes I agree. I wish we can go to the medieval times and get the bubonic plague
12:45 props to the police for staying true to the response no matter what and check up on it first.
Honestly though, how can you blame em. If you get a call saying someone has a bomb. You arent gonna walk in with "Radioshack walky talkies" and a hand gun. You're gonna break out the big guns to try and reduce the risk. It isnt the police officers' fault.
*explodes*
That's a bit stupid since if your gonna kill the guy with the bomb he just gonna blow up since he knows you have big guns
Thank you, Angerypigeon Gaming, I’m sure you have plenty of police knowledge.
The militarization goes far beyond just equipment, it's a mindset, in which US citizens are the enemy.
@@goldproductions5867 ik the police wank off to pictures of donuts
"Hacker culture" lol
Mr_spoon yes, impersonating someone’s phone ,is a hack.
Mr_spoon they should edit it to toxic children instead of hacker
1337 and all that Please shoot me
no, it isn't.
Anyone else see the Kali terminal so it seems like they are hacking lol
I keep picturing these heavily armed people breaking into my house and yelling at the top of their lungs. I have a 76 year old mother who went through 2 strokes and a seizure, she doesn't walk or speaks (but understands everything just fine, she's very lucid, thank God), and I get angry just to think of what health complications that could have on her. These swatters have to found and punished by the maximum extent of the law!
For every incident of “swatting”, there are hundreds of examples of police busting into houses guns drawn, killing dogs, shooting kids, brutalizing anyone they find and otherwise committing acts of domestic terrorism all by themselves without any malicious outside person setting it up. You’ve got a lot more to fear from some costumed coward with a room temperature IQ and dressed like he’s in Fallujah trying to read a simple address off a warrant than you do the remote chance of a swatter.
Why has this been in my recommended for a year now?
Sad thing is most streamers can get swatted. Mainly people who play games like csgo. They try to get streamers in jail or something sometimes if they are calling out about bombs. It's sad when people need to get others almost killed and arrest to get a laugh.
Yeah I Agree
Yeah
+Crown Clownie blame 4chan
+Michael Jason “oops” Seibert 4chan doesnt do swatting. Kids do swatting. You dont know what youre talking about. Stop trying to act smart
xgamer224 why are you sensitive?
Swatters should be liable. They could get someone killed. Tracking them could be harder.
They actually got people killed
The local deployment of “cops” are pretty normal until the M2 Bradley shows up.
In russia veichle is veichle
Wym I got 8 hv’s we can take it easy
*_"Tired of swatting? But now you can stop hackers from knowing where live using, [Insert VPN software of your choice]"_*
Hacking and playing video games are two different things.
An armored assault RESCUE vehical.... wow what are they gonna rescue people from? Heavy rpg fire? Tanks? Godzilla?
from ze Germanz
hahahahaha killed me xd
And RPG would have turned that vehicle into a toaster oven, to be fair. Not *that* different from an armored vehicles police forces all over the world have, but I get what you mean.
but thats not the point i was going for. unless theres an army of people with 30-06's firing at it what is the use? a step down from an IAV with the words rescue on the side....yea i fell safer already
***** oh so it did something everyother truck can do? Or was the family caught in some kind of fire fight?
The host looks like a generic badass detective in a Police movie when he wears the shades.
"With a headshot your looking for the eyes and nose area" Me: what is this CS:GO ?
Is it better to shoot someone center mass and risk getting shot or headshot someone?
@Sid the Kid why center mass? I thought only the FBI does that
@Sid the Kid oh so that's how it works
00:59 *S-imple* *W-idely* *A-vailable* *T-echnology*
CassiTheNerd holy shit
Wow
Or Special Weapons And Tactics
@Kaleb Loshbough i cant tell if you are joking are just a liberal dumbass
The True Patriot, Really? At least ground pounders have ROE as well as more discipline, SWAT is just a bunch of militarized police made by a force of over-entitled civilians.
I figure when you can't distinguish a police officer from a military personnel, you have a big problem.
you do realize there is a difference between SWAT officers and normal police officers? SWAT often looks militarized
+IAm BecomePoetry yes I know that, but I'm talking about the colours of the uniforms, if I met them I'd think they were military
Paul Liu but then you wouldn't know they were cops, you would think they were armed strippers
Paul Liu I'm all for cops, most of them are good people. But if I see a cop, and he/her is not under cover or off duty, I should know that they are a cop. But that's just my opinion.
they all wear police bullet proof vests that either say police or swat on them lmao kek
Yeah they're not pranksters, they're criminals and sociopaths/psychopaths and need to be called as such and prosecuted as such.
Prosecuted as a psychopath/sociopath? Something is wrong with you
Bunker Gamer how
@@michealjackson8716 explain to me how sociopathy is a crime
Bunker Gamer well they probably committed a crime and they did commit a crime so why not charge then for it
Fucking pussys stfu before I get your IP and use it on the black market
10000 degree SWAT team vs invincible house at 3 am
I bet battlefield players don't do this.
I bet the same kids who play CoD play BF. And if it happens in CoD...
Darkwiz666 Xbox kiddies usually don't own high end PCs, and battlefield on consoles.. well, that's just bad.
***** i think mass murderers might be a little worse..
HJQB Well I own a xbox and I built my own high end computer and I have something to add to this with some experience. Xbox online has more players, and more servers... =( PC is 100x nicer than any game counsel BUT not as many servers and players... BUT less kids that do this swatting thing. =)
***** would you like a tissue for your issue?
13:03 The kid who is using that lsat with target finder on bo2 need to be grounded
THANK GOD I WAS SCROLLING TO SEE IF SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED LMAOOOO
classic police, threatens anyone who asks a question
“why do you need all this funding when theres no threat” 15:43 *insert argument based on emotion”
7:56 i love how charlie sheen is the only one with a mugshot lmfao
SWAT team be like: we dragged this door ram all the way here...we're not leaving without making some splinters!
This reminds me of thw "FBI open up" meme😂🤣🤣
Intro: Guy sweeps barrel across his team for 30 seconds.
2:04 lol no. Police and military SHOULD NOT aim for headshots, that's just stupid. center-mass is where it's all about, and anyone who has been in the military would know that. And to think that this is where America's money is going. Taxes well paid!
Headshot is instakill, shooting in the chest won't kill the person instantly. The person could still shoot at the swat.
+Itspietertime Nope. You aim center of mass, EVERY time. This ain't call of duty this is real life.
+Itspietertime And head shots are not "instakills" you can be shot in the head and still be conscious and mobile.
+Bellum Totum No... if you're shot 2-3 times in the chest, chances are - you're going down, if you shoot in the chest it is a MUCH easier shot than a head.
Moron. I grew up around plenty of guys in the military's special forces. 2 in the chest and one in the head is actually a really affective maneuver called the Mozambique drill. Also consider that these are SWAT officers and wouldn't be there unless it was a really dangerous scenario, hence, deeming the "shoot to kill" option necessary. Anyone whose been in the special forces will tell you that. And a lot of the SWAT officers are former military.
Its not hackers :/. Its people who get upset at a specific gamer, or trolls on a live stream who call to have the gamer who's targeted swatted
AllPowerful Zod its not gamers. Its this generation in general. Still.
***** this is literally the biggest waste for a comment I've ever seen.
Hhhb
vanessahill24 This is for the purpose of a laugh. even less of a waste lol
But they did do some sort of hacking to get the personal information. So clearly they are hacking in some way or form.
The guy who was interviewed for his brother I laughed when he was so nervous and said “the the th- the the swat swat” 💀
I like how the guy with the gopro on his gun in the beginning of the video was sweeping all of his squad mates with his barrel
lol. he used an LSAT target finder during that cod scene. what a noob
Where do you download them from, I wanna give it a try lol
1111118971 What?
The LSAT target finder cheat for cod
1111118971 CoD doesn't require any skills to play it. Are you really that bad that you need to find a cheat to be good at it?
I just started to play and I fucking hate being a noob
2:03 Ash is that you?
Bruhhhh
Nah thats her sister in Swat
Nah fam everyone knows ash doesn’t have a face
rip acog
I was born in 1983 and in Croatia up to 2005 (i think) we have had mandarory military servece that lasted for 6 mts. Basic traning and specialist traning. In this video I see great aquipment and top tactics. What I would suggest is compulsory physical fitness. Most of this guys are owerweight. At the end of the day all equipment and tacticsare only worth as much as a capable security guard.. Best Regards
imagin an actual terrorist did something like this. they swat some random house saying i'm holding a family hostage, most of the police, fire, paramedics etc rush over and it was a hox and not to far away the terrorist uses this to cause an attack somewhere and no one is really able to stop him/her or even they from causing harm and by the time law and emergency sevices arrive its pretty much to late and this ends up becoming an actual pattern with this group in their attacks. they swat someone to cause panic and then do an actual attack, this needs to be dealt with quickly. (p.s something like that would actually be an interesting idea for a show like S.W.A.T to being awareness to this problem)
Government power consolidation for dummies: 1) Introduce potential threat, or make a mountain out of a molehill. 2) Hype it up so that the public takes it seriously. 3) Use that to justify increasing government intervention, so that they have a large number of superequipped mercenaries who will follow orders in the name of domestic security. I see that Murdoch has made what we can call a smart investment.
+Danny Kay I agree with your assessment. However, it is Homeland Security funding the militarization of local police departments. Homeland Security is a part of the executive branch. This is Obama's police state.
Jon Forbes I am not an AJ follower/listener, and I think that most of what he says is way off, but obviously some of his 'news' are based on facts. Besides, you really don't have to believe global eugenics and "the elites and their progeny going to the stars" to see why increasing militarization coupled with federal laws that give governments more control over people is a dangerous thing. Harry Holler Do you think Obama is at the root of the issue? Is he the final shot caller in this? I am aware that increasing militarization of the police are largely government initiatives, but who does the government really serve? All those purchases, and the ability to utilize all that equipment along with the people who are to use it to carry out their mission, work for the enrichment of a small minority, from both the government and the private sector. Not two mention that those two have been historically interlinked for thousands of years.
Plus after 15 years of war, we have some pretty beefed up military surplus that will be available coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. We don't need it on the streets or in the hands of the police or other enforcing agencies.
I also love it how VICE doesn't seem to be willing to have a rigorous discussion about whether we need militarization for the protection of civilians to such a scale, and what would be the incidents where such weaponry would be appropriate. Instead, they seem to be presenting the entire documentary in the following manner: "Well, we have an increasing number of equipment in local county police forces that they sometimes use during small operations. But now SWATTING is the new threat, so in addition to all the equipment and weaponry, the police must now be ready to counter those malicious trouble-makers on the web. This way, every citizen feels secure, JUST IN CASE it may be used for something more than just pranking the fuck out of people, because they know in advance how ridiculously armed to the teeth the police is becoming." Typical mainstream media fear-mongering and capitalizing on small issues.
Danny Kay This was the reason they said they were arming up just 2 weeks ago. Now they say they are arming up for counter hacking and taking down Swatter calls. Which do you believe? I'm a vet, I know what I think. www.infowars.com/police-now-armed-for-war-against-returning-veterans/
13:03 they actually bought bo2 and used the preset class to use that clip lol I'm done
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+ReVo Nyro who ever was playing had crappy aim, and a target finder smfh
+MrLADz OG lol probably all my friends
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7:55 why you gotta do my boy Charlie Sheen like that 😂
4:27 Ash from Rainbow Six: Siege
I’ve seen some damn good female SWAT officers, they’re usually ex military but not always, to that point, SWAT teams are usually made up primarily of retired Army or Marine personal
As former U.S. army soldier I do not believe swat should be wearing any form of camouflage. Stick to your straight black. This is what most people have a problem with. You look more like PMCs then anything. It needs to stop! I have no problem with police having better weapons to combat criminals & possibly an invading force. Let's be real, police are the 1st resistance any invading force will make contact with. I only have a problem with the camouflage uniforms. You need to stick with you standard black! Current thoughts: I guess it's whatever. It's grown on me that they have these uniforms. As many have stated, these uniforms & vehicles are donated or sold cheap to the police. If it saves money & guarantees police safety, I'm all for it.
There is also no reason swat needs an MRAP armored vehicle. You can use an old fashion armored van or an armored courier truck used by money couriers. Could possibly use a HMMVV as well. No reason police need a specialized combat vehicle designed to support infantry on the battlefield!
You are no way ex-military... talking quite some trash! Also, it's HMMWV and not HMMVV
Andy Krause Your just trying to start something. I was sworn in the U.S. army September 3rd 2011. Still have my first uniform issued to me. Packed away in a sealed Ziploc for clothing. I was medically discharge in service & I don't have to prove anything to you. I did not join for any noble reason. I joined to fight but I give you my word I would & will not fight for you!
I'm OK with police having some advanced weapons but not on this scale and not used this often
Lol Rade is probably some pog who barely made it out of AIT, got to their first unit and was medically discharged. Anyone who claims their were in the military doesn't talk about being sworn in as some huge monumental moment in their career as a hero. Since you got discharged so fast that's probably the only thing you have under your belt that you like to brag about. There's a big difference between making it through basic and ait and ait and actually serving our country. It's funny how anyone in the military that has actually seen combat is super humble, while wanna be's talk about getting sworn in, or all the hardships they had in their two weeks of service. Nice try
Cops playing army.
Say what you want about them, they will still come and save you if you called.
pward17 In Somerset NJ?
***** just saying its not fair, they are just doing their job and to be honest i wouldn't have the balls to do that job.
pward17 save from what?
pward17 Statistically, they virtually never save anyone from a crime in progress. In America, they're famous for actually killing the victims in a hail of their own gunfire. If you weren't a fucking dumbass, you'd understand police are nothing more than 'public historians'. They show up at a crime scene after the assailants are gone, and take record. And no you don't have the balls to do that job, and neither do they. Because you're all pussies. Pussies are always history's most famous degenerate authoritarians.
Im all for a "militarized police" as long as we have a militarized population that trains just as much.. bring back militias.
ait thx for the tut
Looks like a nice documentary.
What in the living fuck?
Panter A sleeping baby was just unintentionally flashbanged by a SWAT officer in a mistaken raid. Our buddy here thinks that that is hilarious.
MrLgmhandler I LOVE HOW MUCH SWATting HAS HELPED OUT OUR COUNTRY AND HELPS ALLOW US THE USE OF HARMING BABIES....because babies are the most dangerous thing, you ever met a baby that wasnt dangerous?
5:17 looks like he was being gentle at least
Props to the cameraman in the start going in alone to film the swating👍
Never seen so much crossfire in my life
I'm sorry, but when people, or the news, or media call an "Armoured Truck" a "Tank" I am done. There is a difference.
But still
IDK about you but I'd rather face an armored truck than an Abrams any day.
No wonder he got swatted, he was using a target finder LMG
That bear vehicle will not stop a 50 cal round.
When the letter bois kick down your door, and your in the hallway with the flammenwerfer on top of 3k rounds of ammunition.
Swatting has just happened to The Creatures founder Kootra! Whoever did that, i hope they catch him and he gets put away for life.
No end him
DennyGamingKing Your comment makes no sense. I mean, is there supposed to be a comment there? If so, why the hell would you wish someone to be a victim of a unneeded SWAT raid?
Not life maybe a year or two.
He's all over twitter trash-talking and praising himself for what he did. His twitter name is at @ScrewPain and a friend of his @spiky even threatened to swat the local Denver ABC7 news place to make the article about it come out faster. I saw plenty of other names that do the same thing as him. He'll never get caught he doesn't even live here, he's in the UK. The only way anyone will get caught is if the FBI does large scale investigations into these kinds of things. In order to start that, people need to raise awareness of the hackers why can't we do an Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness to stopping hackers?
Same, I hope they are able to catch the fucker who did this. Someone could have got hurt.
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." William Adama. In this case the Police are becoming the military.
In the uk we have sfo, ARV and CTSFO which are basically swat in the uk
I guess it should make him feel more safe or unsafe depending on his outlook that that many cops showed up so fast and ready
Why the hell would a small rural village need a SWAT team on stand by?
Because when someone starts shooting up a school or a hospital in a rural village, they can't afford to wait for the next big city to send their resources.
Because Rural Cops like their nifty toys. They can raid houses that might be smoking pot (even if the cops do it or worse too) and face no consequences for shooting the family dog or throwing a flashgrenade in an infant crib, and do not have to pay for or replace a new dooror damages : EVEN WHEN THEY DON"T FIND ANYTHING. It is a good way to chase people out they don't like. Sad but common to have rural terrorism when they first get their new gear.
It's not some rural village, it's suburban New Jersey. It's right outside New York.
I know right they even said they haven't used it for anything major. This all seems like a big waste
www.aclu.org/blog/mass-incarceration/another-day-another-124-violent-swat-raids "There are an estimated 45,000 SWAT raids every year. That means this sort of violent, paramilitary raid is happening in about 124 homes every day - or more likely every night - not in an overseas combat zone, but here in American neighborhoods. The police, who are supposed to serve and protect communities, are instead waging war on the people who live in them." It is not o.k for the govt to enter your home, dressed in black, pointing a'k 47s at you: and when they don't find anything, they don't get in trouble, if they shoot your dog, (which is standard, they are taught to do this) or flashbang your baby, or your grandpa, and later find they got the wrong house, or their informant lied, they don't get in trouble. None. They don't even have to pay to fix the door they broke. It is not right, but at this point it is not illegal either. It is legal This will happen 124 times today. Shoot first, ask later.
I think it’s more of going from a “tactical” vest too each officers decked out in $5000 worth of gear and they need to justify it by using it anytime they can get a chance because they know If they don’t they will get it taken back
Yea lmao
So this was six years billions of $'s ago. Imagine how "kitted out" they are now...
Now 7.
The guy who opened the door was look up think about IEDs
4:27 Ash main spotted
Giles D'Souza ayy
I saw that too lol
Ay tell her to hmu on instagram @sorrows_skys gotta shoot your shot even if u dont know itll happen
4:24 is thermite too
LMAO
If you have your headphones on your head and you don't hear the cops call themselves through the door and you're one of those people that has a pistol for home protection if you have that in your hands when they come through the door, you're dead at first sight.
God bless ALL cops 🍀