Are you suggesting that is the reason they might have declined to use their public address systems, to ID themselves and order the occupants out?
And if the occupants couldn’t hear a PA system, how in hell would deputies verbally calling out penetrate high energy efficiency insulated materials?
#7. Honking a horn for about 60 seconds will wake the dead.
No, I am not. I am simply pointing out that your assertion that ‘A police car public address system can be heard inside every house’ is not longer always true. At one point I had a recently retired Crown Victoria police car that the police had removed the lights and radio from prior to sale - but left the siren and PA system mostly intact. My friend had a new ‘super energy efficient house’ that was disturbingly quiet inside. Experimentation followed and we found that literally nobody in his development cul de sac could hear the car’s *very* loud PA system in their new homes.