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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!
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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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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.
oh, shut the fuck up. next time there's someone dealing drugs outside your house, what are you going to do about it? cry? no, you call the police. if someone calls in a bomb threat at a school, or if there's someone with a gun at the mall shooting, is nobody supposed to show up? get fucking real. this kid was abusing a means of calling for armed emergency last-line support. he was doing it knowingly to hurt and harass other people. he knew he was doing this and wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public funds. he should be hung or shot as an example that that's not tolerated. you can't allow people to do that kind of abuse to public systems without repercussions, or everyone who wants to will do the same.
like honestly, are you stupid, or 10? don't be stupid. letting him get away with it is no different than letting the country decay into lawlessness.
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?
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.
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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next time there's someone dealing drugs outside your house, what are you going to do about it?
If your post is any indication, the answer is "Go outside and conduct all the fucking business you can."
...will see
For the borderline illiterate, "will see" in this context is more likely to mean "will happen to them."
You disgusting authoritarian bootlickers who see no difference between a civil police force that protects its citizens and one that is ultra-violent, militarized, and views citizens as war-time combatants are a disgrace to the principles this country was founded on. Take your "but if police aren't ultra-aggressive soldiers that shoot first, ask questions, and view civil rights as something to work around, the only alternative is anarchy with no police" and fuck right off to PoliceOne you psychotic jackass. Same for whatever jackass who modded that comment up.
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.
Are you mentally retarded?
There's a SLIGHT difference between 'some one showing up' and a military platoon crashing in without warning.
No one is arguing for this kid's interest. You are willfully ignoring the real issue, you troll.
Seriously, cops do not do SHIT about drug dealing. I live in a downtown area and people sell hard drugs to partyers, junkies, etc. all day long OUTSIDE MY WINDOW and on the blocks all around
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...
Trying to blame one kid
The SWATer is no kid: "25-year-old Tyler Barriss"
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.