What is the crime of threatening others with words?

Verbal threats threaten the safety of others, which violates the provisions of Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment and is suspected of interfering with the normal life of others. This is an illegal act. If the circumstances are serious, it will constitute a crime of stirring up trouble. According to the provisions of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, verbal threats can be detained for up to five days or fined up to 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan. If the circumstances are serious, the criminal responsibility of the other party shall be investigated according to the crime of stirring up trouble. The victim may report the case to the public security organ and ask for investigation.

legal ground

Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means; (2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; (3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others; (six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.