Weaponized address data.
A casebook of documented U.S. incidents in which the exposure of a home address translated into a tactical police response at someone's door. Each entry traces the same chain: address data exposure » hoax narrative » armed response.
Swatting is the most visible failure mode of proximity-triggered data exposure.
20 Documented pathway
24 Inferred pathway
2 Pending verification
Politician
Celebrity / Streamer
Judge / Prosecutor
Private Citizen
FIG. 01 / HEX-TILE GEOGRAPHY
Incidents over time
The late-2023 wave dominates the dataset. Federal prosecutors later attributed dozens of late-2023 calls to a single Romanian and Serbian conspiracy operating since December 2020.
By address exposure pathway
Every swatting incident depends on a perpetrator obtaining a victim's home address. The dataset groups cases by how that data exposure occurred. Property records and public official directories dominate, an artifact of transparency-by-design overlapping with the lack of address-privacy controls for elected officials.