I consider myself a reasonably prudent individual and if it were the middle of the night, with sirens blazing, red lights flashing and someone was beating on my front door I would be very defensive, especially if that person suddenly busted through the door aiming a weapon at me.
The SWAT team knows what’s going down, the innocent person in the house has probably been awakened from sleep, is possibly scantily clad, and not trained to think well in all the confusion, confusion intended to disorient them. And that would go double for a Marine who had been in combat!
It’s also a problem that EVERYONE is yelling, and in the chaos it’s not impossible that they are yelling conflicting orders. Damned if you, shot if you don’t is not a good policy.
With the explosion in SWAT teams around the country as a result of Homeland Security spending it’s become VERY important that we come up with an objective, workable, open and above board policy for dealing with these incidents.
In less than 10 years we’ve gone from a few hundred SWAT teams to over several thousand. And some agencies are still depending on the procedures and protocols that were established before they had the SWAT capability.
I don’t know the answer, but someone smarter than me needs to come up with something to address the problem.
Workable, open and above board policy would be to disband these JBT units and go back to normal police type tactics were officer friendly knocks on your door tells you there is a warrant to search your home.
If you don't comply with a lawful warrant, call in SWAT