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Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Is Now Also Wanted in Florida (kansas.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
Florida police recount how close they were to aresting 25-year-old Tyler Barriss before his fake call to Kansas police led to a fatal shooting. "Panama City Beach police Lt. J.R. Talamantez told the Panama City News Herald that police had tied Barriss to about 30 other bomb threats," reports the Wichita Eagle -- a full month before another call led to the fatal shooting of a father of two in Kansas. But attempts to secure an arrest warrant may have been slowed by the lack of an address, since apparently Barriss "lived in a shelter in South Los Angeles. Police there found him in a local library."
A Florida newspaper reports that their local police department is now doing what they can to right the situation. "Lt. J.R. Talamantez, cyber crimes investigator with the Panama City Beach police, said the department currently has two felony warrants issued for Barris' arrest and is providing the U.S. Attorney's Office with information... Talamantez said the end goal is to identify all victims of Barriss' calls and bring him to justice on all those incidents... "We just want to send a message that this isn't going to end with a slap on the wrist. The victims will see an appropriate punishment."
A Florida newspaper reports that their local police department is now doing what they can to right the situation. "Lt. J.R. Talamantez, cyber crimes investigator with the Panama City Beach police, said the department currently has two felony warrants issued for Barris' arrest and is providing the U.S. Attorney's Office with information... Talamantez said the end goal is to identify all victims of Barriss' calls and bring him to justice on all those incidents... "We just want to send a message that this isn't going to end with a slap on the wrist. The victims will see an appropriate punishment."
Another Known Wolf.
Maybe you could have phrased that better, chief.
All but one of the victims will see an appropriate punishment.
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The caller, the shooter of an innocent person? It needn't be an either/or issue. I say, both!
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
Tough on crime!
So he's going to be locked in a cell and SWAT teams will randomly terrorize him for years, day and night, without warning, at random hours?
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Trying to blame one kid for the intentionally hyper-violent law enforcement doctrine that pervades the country.
Police are trained to be unjustly violent and blindly authoritarian.
In other words, our police are almost completely militarized, from their training to their equipment.
At any time you could become an "enemy combatant" in your own home, whether it be because of a systemic failure as in this case, or because of systemic manipulation. The chilling examples of the secret polices of inter- and post-war Europe come to mind.
If you don't want a police state, you're going to have to figure out how to network with the people around you to make your voices heard.
A police cyber crimes investigator is also the one doing the sentencing: "this isn't going to end with a slap on the wrist. The victims will see an appropriate punishment."?
And this needs to be done nationwide. Unlike a lot of theoretical vulnerabilities demonstrated at the conferences, this is literally a matter of life and death. This kid isn't the only one out there pulling this kind of shit.
And they need to train 911 operators to spot and react properly to out-of-state calls.
Get this kid, stick him on a table, give him the chemicals he needs to depart this life then forcibly sterilize the parents.
Problem solved.
someone should kill them
They seem to be showing a pattern of ignoring clear warning signs.
They failed to take action prior to the recent school shooting and now we find out that they let 30 bomb threats go.
I'm starting to think the whole big brother thing is just a scare tactic to reduce crime without doing anything except over-exaggerating their capabilities.
How many other red-flags are they ignoring?
how come when theres a shooting in one of your fucking schools the police never get in but when people are sleeping at home the swat team breaches thru the door like you were just watching some anime lolicon with extra patting on the head?
i mean, really
Glad, they're taking care of the idiot "just for lulz" guy. Hope they're going to charge the SWAT cop if they haven't already, too.
If VoIP spoofing is done right (and it is, most of the time, by robocallers), there's no way to tell that it's out of state. It appears to come from a legitimate number in the local area. So there's no way the 911 operators can do anything other than react to what's apparently happening - unless the swatter is so dumb as to not be spoofing.
and personally I think it's a little screwed up that we use the prisoners themselves to inflict the cruel and unusual punishment that we don't have the stomach to do ourselves. Then again I'm not in favor of punishment based prison. Either rehabilitate him or keep him locked up for life if we think he'll be a danger to the community. But I'd like us to be good enough people that we don't have to resort to round about torture.
Either that or go all in and use pain ray on them 24/7 until their heart fails. At least then we'd be admitting we want to cause pain and suffering.
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...will see
For the borderline illiterate, "will see" in this context is more likely to mean "will happen to them."
Well you can't have 911 operators refuse to respond to a call because it originates out of state. For every one of these terrible pranks, there's people who call in because of legitimate emergencies with loved ones in other states.
Caller ID, it's quite the redesign. There's too many legit uses to not allow spoofing at all; you'd have to somehow have every 911 center hooked into every phone company system to view the real origin, as well as into every VoIP provider (and with that, you'll only have IP and billing info at best, not geolocation). There's good reasons it's still a problem.
Sort of sounds like his life is punishment enough.
Yup. That's Slashdot.
I'm curious: do they decide if the call is local because of the area code or because of some telemetry location data, like a cell tower's location? If it's area code, then that's just stupid. I've moved from one coast to the other in the past 3 years and I still have an area code from the midwest.
If they use actual location data, then that's a little more reasonable, but I can still imagine a scenario where someone from outside the area would be making a 911 call. For example, if a mother is talking long-distance to her neo-nazi gamer son who tells her he's going to go shoot up a school because they're not real people, only crisis actors, then I would expect the mother to call 911 for the area where her son lives. I'm pretty sure the local 911 operator would put her right through. She might end up saving some lives, though hopefully not her son's.
You are welcome on my lawn.
And the police operations cost exactly nothing too. Er, hold on...
Yay for state-sponsored rape and torture!
Those are not mutually exclusive.
The people doing the swatting are idiots. If you're gonna misuse an instrument of state use it to creative purpose. For example you could swat the more idiotic politicians in the region. That would be great fun too especially if someone could tap their in-house camera systems.
Maybe then we'd get them to pass legislation ending the trusted CLID business.
Both the swatter and the cop should face murder charges.
Why did you capitalise 'negro'? It's not a proper noun. Are you stupid?
Only kidding. Of course you're thick. You're a dopey cunt.
And there isn't a 'negro' in the world who isn't better than you in every way. Including Robert Mugabe.
The victims will happen to them an appropriate punishment?
Maybe it's written in RPN?