In my state there is a law that makes false call to 911 a criminal offense. If someone says “there is a bomb” on such call, that makes it more serious offence because this will cause public alarm. If the person making such call is stupid enough to do it from their phone, they will likely be identified and prosecuted. And people doing stupid things tend to be that stupid.
I’m not sure about damages caused by the raid, though. SWAT doesn’t know if the threat is real or not, so they can’t be held liable. Probably the victim can sue the caller, if they’ve been found…
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
How about the police do, idk, like 5 min of police work to verify literally any part of the story first?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
That’s crazy talk!
87Six@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Exactly, like asking “is the caller even in the same area? Who lives there? Is this place usually agitated?” Which seems like they would need to know before going in anyway…