What worked for a small town will perhaps work one day for the country.
People who keep questioning why departments purchase and train with SWAT gear need only remember the shootout in California years ago. Nothing quite like having to go borrow a gun stores inventory in the middle of a firefight to be able to have a rifle that was more accurate and powerful enuff to penetrate the body armor that those two morons were outfitted with. It doesn’t mean we are all specops wannabees...maybe we just want to be as well equipped as possible should that situation arise in “our little towns”. Being better equipped and trained brings incidents like that to a close faster, thus hopefully saving lives. My two cents worth.