Ma’am, respectfully, I don’t think they’re stupid at all.
They’re following orders. Without question, it would appear.
“Stupid” would imply that this kind of crap only happens once in a blue moon; but when you look at all of the “we got the wrong house” no-knock 4am flashbang boogie-woogie episodes that have been going on, and incidents where cops use lethal force where it’s clearly NOT necessary (like with the 96 year old man shot by cops in the nursing home for refusing his medicine - they tazed him, then shot him with a bean bag round, with caused massive internal injury and he bled to death)... and other incidents involving cops and excessive force that we read about every couple of days out here...
when you add up these things it paints a grim picture of a militarized state-sanctioned paramilitary force with little restraint and no hesitation to exercise that force on people.
You have legitimate criminals in society that need to be taken down. You have folks who do something stupid and get caught up in the system; then you have ordinary folks who are doing nothing wrong, but somehow draw the attention of “The Eye in the Sky” and have the system come down on them.
These used to be a time when LEOs knew the difference between criminals and the rest of society. Now, they SEEM to view all of us as potential criminals.
And we PAY them.
The truth is we are all potential criminals. With over 10,000 Federal laws alone, over a million regulations pursuant to those laws, and God knows how many state and local ordinances, nobody can know them all. Some laws even make it a crime if some bureaucrat decides you broke the laws of another country, regardless of whether you have ever been there, or if the other country says you didn't (just ask Gibson guitar company).