{"id":35787,"date":"2013-04-15T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35787"},"modified":"2013-04-14T08:29:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:29:14","slug":"counting-the-seconds-til-the-lawsuit-is-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35787","title":{"rendered":"Counting The Seconds Til The Lawsuit Is Filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Police say they&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2013\/04\/11\/lapd-will-no-longer-provide-info-to-media-on-celeb-swatting-pranks\/\">no longer immediately release addresses of people who&#8217;ve been &#8220;SWATted&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; victimized by prank false alarms designed to bring out a maximum, intrusive police response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that they will no longer offer immediate information to the media on bogus 911 calls that target celebrity homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that whoever is doing this is motivated by watching the police on TV and watching the helicopters come in, and we don\u2019t want to allow that opportunity,\u201d said Cmdr. Andrew Smith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good thing; it removes a motivation for these potentially dangerous pranks, and it might even potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/QEF6siIGsm\">free up one of their overstretched supply of scarce reporters<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2013\/04\/why-dr-kermit-gosnells-trial-should-be-a-front-page-story\/274944\/\">cover the Gosnell trial<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Er, wait &#8211; no. \u00a0They&#8217;ll be busy filing paperwork to find out who&#8217;s been SWATted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smith said the department will also stop broadcasting the \u201cswatting\u201d calls so news organizations can\u2019t hear the location of the star\u2019s home. The media will now have to file a public records request, which can take 10 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They know what matters, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Police say they&#8217;ll no longer immediately release addresses of people who&#8217;ve been &#8220;SWATted&#8221; &#8211; victimized by prank false alarms designed to bring out a maximum, intrusive police response: The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that they will no longer offer immediate information to the media on bogus 911 calls that target celebrity homes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35792,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787\/revisions\/35792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}