The officers on the entry team are not at fault. They have no way of knowing if they are hitting the right house or not, so they follow procedure the same way every time amd so did I. I prefer to go home every night and not leve my safety up to arm chair QB's who haven't the nerve to do the job others do.
Entry team is a harrowng experience some times. Other times it is boring. I trained and implemented on the side of harrowing every time.
Puh-leeze. Anyone with a multidigit IQ can figure out that if you have an ambiguous description of the target, you go back and get a clarification.
Which part of the procedure calls for roughing up 80 year olds and putting them in the hospital for the crime of sleeping at home in their beds?
Cool. Does that mean us non-LEOs aren't responsible for anything we do either? Next time I get stopped for speeding can I say it's "not my fault" and get away it?
arm chair QB's who haven't the nerve to do the job others do.
I guess that I, and others here, lack the bravery and courage to kick down the door of a couple of senior citizens and send both of them to the hospital.
You get off on this sort of crap or you wouldn't be doing it, and what's with implying that those who object to brutality or simple ignorance substituting for professionalism are somehow cowards?
Oooh, I have an idea! How about we get rid of small town SWAT teams and stop doing dynamic entries. Arrest ppl when they are out in town and when they can be clearly identified.
You know innocent homeowners like to wake up in the morning as well.
Don't spew your BS about harrowing you volunteered you cant take the heat then get the hell out of the kitchen, why don't you try entering under RPG and crew served MG and then talk to me about harrowing.
SO tell me wise guy you are at home 0300 you hear glass breaking followed by a flash bang or CS what do you do knowing that you have done nothing wrong?
Take the gamble that they are real JBT's and that they are not home invaders that will rape you wife and kids while you watch before executing you?
Take the gamble that they are home invaders and bleed out after you take a few of the entry team out with you or end up on death roe
''Nerve'' to do the job has nothing to do with this matter and is an example of a weak attempt at anti-intellectual distraction of the facts. We each choose the job we do and the law imposes on each of us the duty to do that job in a lawful manner and without negligently inflicting injury on another person. To assert that: '' the officers on the entry team are not at fault'' is just another excuse for a universal justification for any wrongful conduct engaged in by a person so long as he purports to be enforcing the law. Thus, a badge and gun is carte blanche and license to be as unreasonable and negligent as one chooses to be because he knows the community will be overwhelmed by the aura of his uniform and the potential danger he faces and hold him harmless.
Sounds like you're saying, "I was just following orders."
Also sounds like there's no limit to the orders you'd follow.
Shame.
"The officers on the entry team are not at fault".
I guess it was the old folks fault for being at home when the jackbooted thugs decided to terrorize them?
Exactly whose fault do you think it was?
"I prefer to go home every night and not leve my safety up to arm chair QB's who haven't the nerve to do the job others do."
It takes a lot of nerve to beat up old people sleeping in their home, and then brag about the safety and comfort of your own home.
B.S. Idiot. Coward. JBT apologist. Dick. Just plum run out of words.
Of course the "officers" on the entry team are at fault.
You break into the wrong house and bust up and old man and his wife and it is not your fault?? What are you, a 9 year old who broke a lamp or something??
An 80 year old lady could not possibly pose a risk to a team of body armour clad heavly armed men in their physical prime. Hope the lot of them are fired.
Imagine how bad the old guy must feel not being able to protect his wife, probally what got him hurt.
Glad they didn't accidently kill the old folks, guess the jury is still out on that though.
Sorry, come screaming through my door at 4 AM, and see what happens. I violate no laws, and assume that any door crashers are NOT the cops.