Why we shouldn't hold police responsible for SWATting people: "They have to treat every call as serious."

Or maybe citizens shouldn’t be able to summon paramilitary troopers to the private residences of others based on no more than hearsay?

Dude, just give other reasonable alternatives. What are the other choices that aren't in the binary. The one that immediately comes to mind and seems to largely have been forgotten is setting up a perimeter and de-escalation. Being in negotiators, announce your presence, try and gather information about the occupants. That was normal even in the corrupt and trigger happy Daryl Gates police of the 90s. It's weird that so many people are totally caught unawares in their homes. They used to have 10 trucks and spotlights and bull horns announcing their intentions. Now in a swatting thing, someone calls the cops, they believe, announcing his plans to kill someone, and they act like it's a drug raid that they're going to get the jump on.

Here's the test: some guy calls a father and says his daughter is being held / raped / whatever at some guys house. If the call is believable, the father, if he's not an asshole, has to treat that call as serious, and he goes in and Liam Neesons the place. Oh, he's not responsible.

Anyone who has a different set of moral rules for cops than anyone else is the exemplifying the core evil of statism.

...their job to try and prevent bad situations from getting worse.

And the only way to make this happen is for them to do the very worse. Break down the door and kill everyone inside? Check. Light the place on fire? Check. Bonus points if it's at an apartment complex. Shit. Wrong address. Repeat.

You found a shill. MuhTaxReturns, created a month ago, trolling a gaming community. Highly suspect.