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FWIW, most cops I’ve dealt with have been professional.

The neighborhood where I live is a bit off the beaten path. A house on fire up the street took 15 minutes for a fire truck to arrive. The one time I know of where the cops were called for someone trying to open a window at night, it took close to 20 minutes. (I told the lady if it happened again to call me. I’m about 2 minutes away by car.) We’re also 60 miles from Mexico.

So when there is a disturbance of some sort, I get a gun before I go looking. My problem is with SWAT teams and forced entries. If the address is wrong - and it sometimes is - then an innocent person is in danger from the SWAT team.

SWAT makes sense for hostage situations. For serving a warrant? Not so much sense. And if the knock on the door doesn’t allow a homeowner time to get to the door, it is effectively a no-knock forced entry.

SWAT makes sense for hostage situations. For serving a warrant? Not so much sense.

I've discussed this ad nauseum with many officers. My POV is, I already wear a dark almost black uniform for regular duty, I already have on a BP vest for regular duty, I already have my batman utility belt on for duty, I already carry 2-3 guns on my body for regular duty....and I'm already on duty.......so why in the world should there be a SWAT/ERT for anything except the most extreme situations? Even for extreme situations I have a SBR and an LBR in my trunk just in case.

Even in my medium sized town my squad has responded to man with gun calls and handled them with extreme prejudice and just like a 'swat team' would because we've all had the training. We were able to handle the situation without ever calling out a swat.

Personally I prefer we handle it ourselves because it really makes the sphincters of the scum of our town quiver when they hear that we've been regulating sh*t ourselves and not having to call in outside assholes.

Most of us are 30 years old on our night shifts. Many of us have been in the USMC, and a lot of the local scum take our PD for granted, like it was thought of back before we were cops. They still think we're do-dicks who just drive around town aimlessly.

That is until, for instance, last month when we had a rash of car break-ins that progressed to home invasions & the whole town was scared sh*tless. So on my nightshift we would wait until the wee hours of the morning and go to the area where we thought our suspect was. We weren't in anything but our duty uniforms with our duty weapons. After 3 nights we spotted the piece of filth and before he could blink we were flew out of the shadows of the night and had him wrapped up like a doughy pretzel. None of them knew what had happened. We scared him and his friends so sh*tless he & his accomplice were confessing before we confronted him with all the evidence we had against him.

It was 90+ degrees out and we were sweating our balls off in our BP vests and duty uniforms but we used our ninja skills and persevered. We didn't need to call out SWAT or any BS like that because thats how we roll here.

When I got an arrestee in my car and he realizes that I have shotgun locked to my dash they usually say "wow" then get quiet. I then usually inform them they should have a look-see in my squad car's trunk and get a gander at the arsenal I keep in there. They never have much to say after that. Like I said they never think we're serious until we got them rolled up like a wet paper towel or stick a giant rifle up their nose.