No, they should be eliminated precisely because they are mismanaged and underused. We as citizens should not be subject to the whims of some wacko local police agency who wants to "play Army."
If there was a jurisdiction that had a level of violent crime that was able to justify the need for these paramilitary organizations, and said SWAT teams were used to suppress such criminal activity, then yes I'd agree that they'd be needed in such a place. But when we see these SWAT teams used in the types of ways we often read about, that just makes the case that they are not needed.
I am also openly questioning just how often the "child porn" excuse is used to arrest or otherwise harass people.
There was an article that appeared last year in USAToday which more or less said that "child porn" had become the new throw down gun for cops.
Not that they were planting it on peoples computers during the raids but that the dope search warrants were being written in such a way that covered any computer devices on the premisses. And what the cops were actually doing was looking though peoples internet history for ANY PORN.
They were finding pictures of females who it turns out were actually models in their mid to late twenties that were petite in size, small to no breasts and shaved genitalia.
These models and their pictures were appearing on various web sites such as Hustler and even Penthouse. The cops without any further investigation was copying the files, seizing the computers and charging people with child porn.
But once the feds got involved and checked the pics they were found to NOT be child porn and the charges were dropped. But by then the damage is already done, your name is in the paper, mugshot and all under the big caption "CHILD PORN ARREST"...
Its just yet another point to be made that the cops are indeed part of the problem and not part of the solution.