[Natural Law]

When you give the big gun, little d*ck types even bigger guns, body armor, armored vehicles, and night vision goggles they just can’t help themselves. Heads need to roll up and down the chain of command from the mayor’s office to the dipshit who pulled the trigger.

[Travis McGee]

There is also another dynamic at work. The city manager looks at that big SWAT budget and calls in the police chief.

“Chief, I see we spent 1.2 million on SWAT gear and training last year. How many times was the SWAT team actually used.”

“Um, I think it was about 25 times.”

“Chief, I can’t justify spending this much money for SWAT.”

(Next year)

“Chief, I see we spent 1.5 million on SWAT gear and training last year. How many times was the SWAT team actually used.”

“SIr, the SWAT team was called out 459 times last year!”

“Great work Chief!”

(Nothing gets a cat out of a tree like a $4,000 SWAT sniper rifle.)