Nice to know we now live in a country where a simple phone call can trigger a full blown SWAT response from 16 different police departments.
Really. What a joke.
If police are getting federal or state money for SWAT programs, they’re going to find all sorts of reasons to use SWAT teams.
Outrageous. Are there no murders, no rapes, no burglaries in those seventeen districts that all those officers have time for THIS?
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“Cops are referring to this operation as a well-being check. They apparently take these well-being checks pretty seriously:”
“Oak forest police and officers from 16 other districts were called in. Negotiators called his home, but eventually got him on his cell phone. The chief said he never told investigators he was not inside his house.”
Art came back on minutes later, saying that he had to deal with a
pounding on his door, and found a deputy following up a
report about a "person in distress". I think some wannabe
dogooder in Oregon or Washington called the Pahrump police.
Hmmmm....I wonder how drunk the megalomaniacal idiot up the hill is, by now?
He ~has~ been looking pretty dejected, lately.
local law enforcement has changed so much in my adult life it is virtually unrecognizable as being from the same locale/country.
Stuff like this (and tsa) makes me not un-sad to permanently live outside the US.