Per a UofL Rave alert:

ULPD is responding to a report of an active shooter at Manual High School.

Do we know anymore about this?

3 minutes ago, theguru said:

Do we know anymore about this?

LMPD cleared the scene, no threat. Said they would be releasing more info when they have it. 

Colerain High School in Cincinnati appears to be subject to a swatting incident this morning and dismissed at 9:15 a.m.

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/colerain-township/colerain-high-school-under-lockdown-after-apparent-swatting-incident

Swatting has been a problem for a long time...

Seems like schools in Cincy, Louisville, Lexington and Evansville were all "SWAT'ed" today.

3 minutes ago, theguru said:

Swatting has been a problem for a long time...

I've never heard that term until today. 

Just now, TheDeuce said:

I've never heard that term until today. 

It's been a thing for several years. Much bigger problem in larger cities with fake calls used to elicit a huge police response.

7 minutes ago, TheDeuce said:

I've never heard that term until today. 

5 minutes ago, Jumper_Dad said:

It's been a thing for several years. Much bigger problem in larger cities with fake calls used to elicit a huge police response.

What JD said.

And, on a much smaller scale, it happened on occasion when I was in public safety. 

So swatting is a fake threat of violence?

When I was a freshman at Boone County, we got fake bomb threats all the time until Administration threatened to cancel Spring Break because of lost class time. Tht ended real quick.

4 minutes ago, MJAlltheWay24 said:

So swatting is a fake threat of violence?

When I was a freshman at Boone County, we got fake bomb threats all the time until Administration threatened to cancel Spring Break because of lost class time. Tht ended real quick.

Google Definition:

Swatting - the action or practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address.

 

Wikipedia Definition:

Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed, among other things.

The term is derived from the law enforcement unit "SWAT" (special weapons and tactics), a specialized type of police unit in the United States. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

2 hours ago, Jumper_Dad said:

Seems like schools in Cincy, Louisville, Lexington and Evansville were all "SWAT'ed" today.

Wow!  And I wonder if we could just be at the tip of the swatting iceberg.