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Categories: Video game controversies, Words coined in the 2000s, Law enforcement controversies in the United States, Video game culture, Computer security exploits
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swatting  SWAT-ing  SWAT-ting  SWATing  swatted
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Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. Wikipedia
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Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. Wikipedia
The act of hoaxing an armed emergency response to a victim's home Wikidata
The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location. Wiktionary
IS A
crime
false alarm
hoax
HAS INSTANCE
2017 Wichita swatting
NAMED AFTER
SWAT team
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SWAT-ing, SWAT-ting, SWATing, swatted, SWATting, Swatting Mitigation Advisory Committee

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