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I certainly think there are applications for SWAT teams and a number of scenarios wherein they're indispensable. Beating down doors to get to a drug stash before it's flushed down the toilet isn't one of them. If it can be flushed down the toilet in the first place it probably isn't that significant, certainly very seldom significant enough to justify the inherent risk of life any time people with automatic weapons embark on a high-speed high-adrenalin entry operation.

I have little sympathy for fellows dressed in black with face-masks on and brandishing high-power weaponry who break into wrong houses unannounced and get shot at for it. The problem there is that you get a gunfight wherein the homeowner is always in the wrong even if he's in the right, and very likely dead as well. Any practice resulting this way needs serious examination.