[Billthedrill]

Yep. Frankly it's a little difficult to come up with a lot of sympathy with a team of armed folks whose first action is to put everyone in the room on their face and in restraints and then figure out if anybody might not have that coming.

The police NEED community support. This kind of crap on the part of non-locals will ensure that the locals suffer. Bad, bad idea.

[Quix]

The police NEED community support. This kind of crap on the part of non-locals will ensure that the locals suffer. Bad, bad idea.
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Therefore, WHY is it going on--especially on such a scale?

[steve-b]

The police NEED community support. This kind of crap on the part of non-locals will ensure that the locals suffer. Bad, bad idea.

This crap is eventually going to cause police-community relationships in respectable middle-class suburbia to sink to the level characteristic of the worst gang-banger turf.

[-YYZ-]

You see these types of assaults on TV a lot on reality shows - COPS and the like - so presumably what they're showing is representative of how they do things. How does it help things to have 5 or 6 guys simultaneously shouting (but not in unison) "Police Police Police!", "Show us your hands", "hands up where we can see them", and "face down on the floor!" The arrestees often seem unsure what to do, not least because they are in shock because their door was just busted down, and maybe a flash-bang grenade tossed in.

And another thing - why do the cops on these raids need to cover their faces? They look like extras from a cheezy 80's Ninja movie.