Man watches massive SWAT style raid on his house from local bar (cops call it a “well-being check”)

The Agitator ^ | 05/06/2011 | Dave Krueger

[Travis McGee]

[Immerito]

Outrageous. Are there no murders, no rapes, no burglaries in those seventeen districts that all those officers have time for THIS?

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“Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:”

“Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”

[dragnet2]

The bill to the tax payers was $75,000 -- Cops are referring to this operation as a “well-being check”. How many of these "well being checks" do they perform a year?

And why is this costing the tax payers this enormous amount of money to contact this person and speak with him about his well being, and to see if he's OK? They show up in armored cars, body armor, swat and paramilitary police troops?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

" . . . “well being check”."

If the owner was home, the SWAT team would have issued a "well beating check", cashed on the poor bugger's a$$.

[Calvin Locke]

When Art Bell returned to the air - this time, it was after his wife
Ramona's untimely demise - he was waxing on about how he had
kept staring at a big bottle of drugs after the funeral, and suddenly
the show was interrupted with some sort of filler.

Art came back on minutes later, saying that he had to deal with a
pounding on his door, and found a deputy following up a
report about a "person in distress". I think some wannabe
dogooder in Oregon or Washington called the Pahrump police.

[ClearCase_guy]

He’s suicidal! Kick the door in and shoot him!

I believe there was a case not long ago of a man out on a ledge, threatening to jump. A rookie cop leaned out a window and used a taser on the man in an effort to subdue him.

In hindsight, this wasn't a smart move.

[dragnet2]

Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”

Did they bother to ask him if he was OK or if he needed any help?

Officers were called in from 16 districts?

Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.

[Frank_2001]

“Maybe they should have brought in the national guard.”

Not to mention the French Foreign Legion!/s;)

[thecabal]

They’re just pissed that they didn’t get to execute a suicidal guy.

[spodefly]

Nothing would make me more suicidal than seeing the SWAT team pull up outside my house.

[Salamander]

Hmmmm....I wonder how drunk the megalomaniacal idiot up the hill is, by now?

He ~has~ been looking pretty dejected, lately.

[eyedigress]

This one is quite ridiculous.

[tbw2]

If someone is suicidal, a social worker would have been appropriate.
Sending in the cops seems a guarantee of suicide by cop, whether the man wanted to live or not.

[brityank]

Seems we’re back in the same boat as the colonists of old:

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.”

We now have a standing army, immune to civilian oversight, as none of them can be held personally responsible for their policies or acts.

[hoosierham]

I necver understood (or approved) of the forced entry in the case of a “man barricaded inside his home “.Let him sleep it off or whatever.When a bunch of oversize egos and guns are involved no good will come of any situation.

[Ezekiel]

It just goes to show how dated those Police Academy movies are. Stuff like this used to be considered "comedy" because it was relegated to absurd TV and movie plots.

Reminds me of the the TSA scene in the movie Airplane 2.

[mewykwistmas]

Otherwise it’s hard to keep all those cops with $100K salaries and pension ‘busy.’

[Tainan]

I blame the “bin Laden Syndrome” for this one.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Sadly I think you might be on to something, something worth watching over the next few weeks and months... cops already think they are DELTA or the SEALs so they get dressed up and play commando...

Here are a few fine examples...

[WoofDog123]

local law enforcement has changed so much in my adult life it is virtually unrecognizable as being from the same locale/country.

Stuff like this (and tsa) makes me not un-sad to permanently live outside the US.