The whole Special Weapons and Tactics things seems a bit over the top, especially coming from the UK where maybe some cop will maybe knock on the door and ask if everything is ok.

I imagine that police responding to a home in a country which is armed to the teeth is quite different.

Problem is how violent US policing is [0].

Police/SWAT do not turn up to assess the situation. It looks like they turn up to release their anger, aggression and "play" with their assault weapons. Swatters do this, because it will cause big material and mental losses to the victim, with a high chance of death [1]. In this case police/swat is a "poor man's assassin".

It's very funny for me to read "Measures against swatting" from that wiki article ([1]), when it happens only in US (and maybe Brazil). This does not happen in other 1st world country, because police is accountable for their ammunition and especially citizens shot. In US you can instigate fake raids and kill innocent people in their sleep, and nothing will happen to you as long as you say that you feared for your life. [2]

[0] I know I am stereotyping, though from western 1st world countries US is undoubtedly the leader in police violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Breonna_Taylor

>Is it not better for the police to wrongfully turn up to a potentially dangerous situation then to not and people get hurt or killed?

Not so long as they tend to leave a trail of citations for petty BS infractions nobody cares about and everyone resents wherever they go.