[trebb]

Easy to say but hard to put into practice...when knocking on a door responding to a "disturbance" call can be deadly, the citizens need to understand that when cops respond to a violent situation, they are also thinking of preserving their own lives.....many of the 'accidental" killings are pure cases of contributive negligence where the citizen doesn't do everything he can to not present as a threat.

There are bad cops out there but I'd wager not as many as some seem to think and one needs to do their own part to contribute to their own safety.....must be hard on a good cop to find out he killed a good citizen...no wonder they have a high number who eat their own guns.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Part of the problem is that in many cases, a citizen doesn’t even know that the cops are there for a “disturbance call” until SWAT is busting their door in at 2 AM.

That’s why SWATting has proven to be an effective, if highly immoral, tactic by ne’er-do-wells.