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12 years ago our home was raided by the King County SWAT Team. They said it was because a person convicted of having sex with an underage girl had attempted to contact her when he was released. Apparently he had given the authorities the phone number that our house had had several years before we moved in.

I was at work at the time. They were just getting ready to use a battering ram on our front door when my wife was able to hobble down to it. Her leg was in a cast at the time. They held her at gun point while they ran all around the house with their assault rifles out in full swat gear and made a mess. My wife was very worried they were going to shoot our wiener dogs.

I have never understood how they got a search warrant on such skimpy and faulty information. We didn't get any kind of apology.

12 years ago our home was raided by the King County SWAT Team.....I have never understood how they got a search warrant on such skimpy and faulty information. We didn't get any kind of apology.

As a police officer these stories enrage and sadden me. There is no excuse. The only thing I can say is, that most of the blame for that should be placed on the States Attorney and the investigative officer(s). The SWAT, while somewhat culpable, is in the end just a tool. SWAT is a blunt object that is thrown hard at a paper wall usually.

I personally believe things like SWAT need to be greatly scaled back. And this is coming from a Marine Infantryman who is now a cop. I love guns, I love the job but too much is too much.

Someday, a SWAT or ERT team is going to be blindly sent into the wrong home wherein there is going to be a highly trained person (like a neighboring agency's police officer) and there is going to be a lot of of unnecessary bloodshed on both ends. It hasn't really happened yet, but it's only a matter of time.