Comment on What's a good way to report animal abuse on YouTube? The report menu doesn't seem to allow for it
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months agoThis is 100% a police problem. Over here, if you send police at my door, we are going to have a chat. It might be unpleasant, but the odds of weapons being drawn is very small.
You can’t blame 4chan for the fact that you have a militarized police force staffed by traumatized COIN veterans using military tactics to respond to unsubstantiated anonymous calls.
THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Yeah everyone on the internet seems to think america is the entire world
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SWAT is an American special police force, so the discussion would naturally involve America.
The French equivalent would probably be sending in GIGN with a false call. The German equivalent would be GSG9. Austraila would be I think SERT.
Regardless, “SWATing” is massively overkill and far more dangerous to innocent people than just calling regular law enforcement to report potential animal abuse.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Or equivalent is DSI, the special intervention service. We don’t dispatch DSI based on anonymous calls. “DSI’ing someone“ is therefore not a thing. But “SWATting” is. There’s a Dutch equivalent of SWAT but bit of SWATting because in our society you don’t send out a heavily armed team of professional killers to check prank calls.
This is not a “SWAT is an American special police force, so the discussion would naturally involve America” kind of discussion.
It’s a “only in the US the state tries to kill everyone in your horse because of anonymous fake telephone calls” kind of conversation.