I'm not trying to relativize, but if an 11 year old can do such mess with a "two-way communication device", then there is a problem with many other things involved.
Yes, exactly. None of us, much less an 11 year old, should have the power to send a small armed militia to go raid someone's home. While calling and false reporting is a serious part of the problem, I think the larger problem is such a police response being commonplace. I can't think of the last time I heard of such a police response actually stopping something heinous from happening, I'm sure it has but I'd be willing to bet the botched operations combined with these swatting calls have done more damage than any good that has come of it.