“It looked like they were ready to go to war,” one neighbor said. “Some of the ones out here had AR15’s and shotguns.”
Obviously the police department messed up here big time and needs to make amends. But I found the above quote hilarious...what did they think SWAT would be using to go after a potentially dangerous criminal? A BB gun?
The last I heard a cops job was to effect an arrest so a judge and jury could handle the matter. Not run around and play combat platoon.
I preferred the good old days when a pair of plainclothed detectives went in and retrieved their man (on the coroners gurney)
It is almost a given that the participants will all be given commendations. They would be given medals if they had managed to kill the lady and her two kids. These things happen so often now that I am beginning to suspect that “wrong” addresses are used for training purposes. It is handier and more realistic to use existing structures with unpredictable occupants than to reserve land and build training structures and employing actors as the Fire Departments do. So far I have not heard any FDs aggressively “putting out a fire” at a wrong address. I suppose that is in the future, though, as the police practice sessions prove their practicability.