Comment on What's a good way to report animal abuse on YouTube? The report menu doesn't seem to allow for it

• 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.

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  • 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.

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