And those who sign off on them should be held accountable financially and criminally if the wrong house gets raided.
“And those who sign off on them should be held accountable financially and criminally if the wrong house gets raided.”
Absolutely. When I worked at Honeywell they surveyed the parts we carried and found that there were hundreds of duplicate parts. Dozens of 100 ohm resistors from different manufacturers, for example. It was easier to put a new part into the system than it was to use their complicated and difficult inventory system to find one that was already being purchased. They implemented a policy that any new part added needed the signature of the local vice president. Applications for new parts went from hundreds per year to one or two. If someone had to sign off on a SWAT raid, you can bet there would never be another wrong address. Probably, there would never be another raid. They aren’t necessary. Like when the local sheriff told BATF that if they wanted the WACO guy all they had to do was pick him up on his morning run. Nope. Didn’t do that because the whole point was to intimidate. Oh, and give the SWAT guys a chance to be macho. Back before they got their own gym, I used to listen to those guys talk. They sounded like overgrown children who couldn’t wait to play soldier. Very scary.