Some crackers' latest prank is to generate a false report of an incident and get a SWAT team sent to an innocent person's address.

These people are crackers because they break computer security. They are hackers because they are practicing playful cleverness. Unfortunately, being playful and clever does not ensure that an activity is ethical. This prank is not innocent: SWAT raids kill innocent people.

However, the prank is merely the trigger for the danger; the root cause of the danger is the policies that use SWAT teams too often.

Noam Chomsky: the US surveillance state provides the secrecy to shield abuses of US power.

The struggle to free the innocent people convicted by lies from the FBI crime lab.

A 30-year study of 800 poor children who started school in Baltimore in 1982 has found very little social mobility: if your parents were poor, you almost certainly end up poor.

The people who raped a Dalit girl (who then killed herself) have threatened violence against her father for rebuking them.