Swatting is a form of criminal harassment where someone makes a false emergency report to emergency services, typically to provoke the dispatch of a SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team or other law enforcement units to another person's location. The false report usually involves serious incidents such as bomb threats, active shooter situations, hostage scenarios, or violent crimes, causing a large and aggressive police response to an unsuspecting victim's home or place. This act is considered illegal and dangerous because it wastes public safety resources, causes trauma to the victims, and can lead to injury or even death. Swatting is often motivated by harassment, retaliation, intimidation, or thrill-seeking and involves techniques like caller ID spoofing and doxing to disguise the perpetrator's identity and locate the target.