BOULDER, Colo. — The adrenaline of a fake "active shooter" call at University of Colorado Boulder is starting to settle, but the questions continue.

"Who do this?" and "What are the odds they'll get caught?"

Denver7 took these questions to Jennifer Doebler, a former FBI intelligence analyst. She's worked on "swatting" investigations before.

"[Swatting is} when a false claim or threat is called in to emergency services," Doebler explained. "Emergency response is deployed, and it causes mass chaos and panic."

That's what happened at CU Boulder on August 25 — only the third day of classes for the 2025-26 school year.

"It's a massively growing trend. So in 2018, 2019 I think there were, you know, less than 100 swatting incidents around the country. In 2023 there were, I believe, over 500

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