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by xorblurb 3831 days ago
Journalists should be educated on effects of false positives even at low proba (which is not even the case here) on random investigations.

Actually, police and justice should be, but when they are not at least we should hope that journalists are.

So maybe technically the original title about the SWATing because you drink tea was not 10000% accurate. Does not matter. They were swatted because they drank tea and grow hydroponic stuff -- no need to invoke "insight"; this is just a fact; and this suffice largely in itself to illustrate there is a big problem in how police do their work.