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Hoax emergency call on UW-Madison campus continues concerning trend of ‘swatting’ police

UW-Madison police are still searching for the man they say made a fake emergency call on the 4th of July and reported an armed man inside the Helen C. White Library on campus.

They say it may be part of a national problem, “swatting.” The FBI defines “swatting” as, “making a hoax call to 911 to draw a response from law enforcement, usually a SWAT team.”