well then they are wrong in the absolute too…….I think this has gone way too far - and it’s done so while we see cop shops more interested in their unions and their pensions than the citizens…..and we see more paramilitary gov agencies too. Way way too far. There is no longer the attitude to protect and serve, and cops are often on the wrong side of law and order these days.
Scary.
But I have never been against the SWAT type unit totally, or even in general.
I had no issues with SWAT before, in recent years though every wide spot in the road is forming a SWAT team, collecting military vehicles and gear. Smaller police forces cannot afford to dedicate men to units like that so their training has to be less than ideal. Not to mention when they have budget talks they have to justify having a SWAT team. The only way to justify the money spent is to use the SWAT team; from a budget standpoint the more they use it the better. In my opinion that is why SWAT is being used to serve regular warrants, and against garden variety potheads in some cases.
In too many places we have small town police officers, with little or no real SWAT training- yet they have all the toys the big boys do. They are also encouraged to use those toys at every opportunity. What could possibly go wrong?