I agree with you completely, but that doesn't mean that there isn't still a need for SWAT and we should get rid of it altogether. Get rid of town/local/state police and let the county sheriffs do their job. If they have a SWAT team and said SWAT team goes in and shoots someone's dog, or violates someone's rights - then take those at fault, to include the leadership, and charge them, convict them, and lock them up. If they're guilty of murder - fry them.
But, a reservist MP company training with police is not a violation of Posse Comitatus.
Hell the Interstate Commerce Clause was to keep states from charging each other tariffs and look what they get away with under that guise......it is long past time to put an end to the nonsense all the way around; killing strawmen isn't going to accomplish that.
The biggest baddest military in the world is not capable of training their own military MPs after multiple wars and police actions all over the planet, for that past several hundred years?
Come on.
Civilian law enforcement and the military should be totally 100 percent separated, except for sharing intelligence/information if need be. Both are quite capable of training their own people.
That sentiment would be much easier to agree with if things actually happened that way.
As is, there's damn little they do for which an ulterior motive is not utterly plausible.
Tell me, when is the last time a civilian government unionized swat team or their police chiefs faced criminal prosecution?
No one suggested getting rid of swat teams. They should ONLY be used for hostage situations or the extremely violent.
The problem is they've popped up in every town and county imaginable, from rural sleepy towns to low crime moderate sized towns. And as an excuse for a need to organize these militarized police organizations, there is a great need on their part to use them in situations which do not call for these types of operations.
I personally believe there is another reason why civilian law enforcement has been incrementally warring up for the past several decades.
In fact, look at all the fortress like government building nowadays, which have cost the tax payers tens of hundreds of billions. People going into these facilities are dog sniffed, scanned, x-rayed, metal detectors, CCTV cameras everywhere, armed guards, vehicle barriers, secured entries etc etc.
Is this all for some coast to coast Muslim attack? If not, who is it for?