CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – University of Virginia chief of police Tim Longo said last week’s hoax reporting a shooter on the school’s Grounds showed how ready local law enforcement agencies are to respond to such an event and emphasized the crucial nature of interagency communication.
But the subsequent investigation into who placed the fake call has been a frustrating reminder of how difficult it can be to find and prosecute those who engage in a swatting hoax.
“I’m not very confident that, in situations like this, you’re always able to identify the source,” Longo told Cville Right Now on Wednesday. “My experience has been, there lots of times these calls come from overseas the numbers are spoofed, and you struggle to ever locate the source of the call. But we’re going to use every law-enforcement asset that we have at our disposal to try to accomplish that.”…