“Forgotten in all of this is the fact that a man died because warrants are served like this to keep drug dealers from flushing drugs down the toilet before the cops can find them.”
I’m all for preserving evidence, but the use of SWAT teams has proliferated beyond all reason. I’ve worked out with a couple of SWAT guys. To them it was all about the thrill and machismo. There should be no place on a SWAT team for a guy who lives for the excitement of breaking down a door and screaming “FREEZE!”
My suggestion, the local top politician should have to sign off on a SWAT operation. Nine times out of ten, they’d find another approach that would work fine.
Preserving evidence at what cost?
Even with these tactics drugs have never been more available on the streets of every town in the USA.
Its about power, money and control. It sure isn’t about stopping drugs or keeping Americans safe.