The FBI has launched a national database to track swatting incidents, a dangerous sort of prank call that has become more and more common in recent years.
Chief Scott Schubert with the bureau’s Criminal Justice Information Services headquarters told NBC News that the national online database was formed in May in response to a rise in swatting incidents. The collaborative effort — supported by hundreds of police departments and law enforcement agencies nationwide — will provide the bureau with “a common operating picture of what’s going on across the country.”
Schubert added, “We’re taking every step to monitor this national problem and help however we can.”
