I get the impression SWAT guys live for these moments, whatever house, whatever reason.
Why let a detective knock on the door when I have a SWAT team to pay?
i am probably the biggest cop-apologist around here (because i am one) but could not justify that story. i will say that SWAT guys are simply the entry teams and are not responsible for the actual intel that leads to an entry.
that is up to the detectives/bosses who oversee the informants. they messed up big time.
Well, they have all that cool paramilitary gear. What good is it if they don’t get to use it and pretend to be Rambo?
Our local sheriff’s election has one of the deputies in the running. A good portion of his campaign website was him touting his SWAT experience and photos of himself in the paramilitary gear. He might as well be a kid in the dirt playing with toy soldiers. The problem is that he’ll run rampant over people’s rights; he is a democrat after all.