SEATTLE — Swatting is the action of making a false or prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring armed police officers to a specific address. The danger arises when officers are told there are guns and/or violent persons on the premises and enter a house forcefully.
Seattle resident and former U.S. intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve Naveed Jamali who now co-chairs Seattle Police Department's Swatting Mitigation Advisory Committee says it's only a matter of time before terrorists use swatting to cause problems on a global scale.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently sponsored an anti-swatting bill in Washington State that passed the House unanimously and is now onto the Senate.
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