I think that is it. In an early story, the police said that they didn’t even know it was the mayor’s house. How on earth do you go into a house without doing some research on who lives there, what kind of pets they have…maybe a floor plan, if available.
The sad truth is this isn’t “dumb police”, this is just business as usual. Some how, some way we have empowered an antagonistic relationship between the governed and the governors. We need to dismantle trh3e whole rotten mess and start over. That means electing a whole new breed of city councilor’s, mayors, State Reps, Federal Congress. Eventually that gets us change. Unfortunately, most voters want to be controlled because they don’t trust themselves to make the right decisions. So, in a word we are screwed. Welcome to the Police State. Look at traffic laws, the entry level for State control. Because most people don’t trust themselves to drive to conditions, they want somebody else to tell them what is safe on the assumption that they are incapable of making that judgment. They also don’t trust themselves to put down the cell phone when traffic gets tight, so they legislate that. They don’t trust themselves to have the self discipline to strap on a seat belt, so they legislate that. We get the government that our neihbors want. Your neighbors want violent police raids because they don’t trust themselves to not smoke pot. Your neibhors are idiots, and so is our government.