[holymoly]

"There’s a reason why you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Admiral William Adama   (Battlestar Galactica, Season 1, Ep. #2, "Water")

[MeganC]

Where’s the Jack Boot Lickers to tell us why having a SWAT team bust into your home at 3am is a good thing?

[KarlInOhio]

"There’s a reason why you separate the military and the police. ....

Since I doubt that Hollywood writers are smart enough to come up with that quote, they probably swiped it from a real philosopher or political commentator. Does anyone have an idea about the original source?

[BitWielder1]

SWAT teams are for when the suspect is known to be extremely dangerous and when a regular serving of a warrant was met with fire.
It is strange how the hippies of the 60's where concerned with police brutality when all the cops did was using batons.
Now when the same hippies are in charge, they are okay with flash grenades and SWAT teams against private citizens.

[Iron Munro]

Like every other government entity, the original mission becomes secondary to the continuation and growth of the organization.

If a government organization has the equipment and the training they will find a way and a place to use it.

If there are no circumstances to justify their existence they will manufacture some.

[crusadersoldier]

#9 Only 7 percent of all SWAT deployments are for “hostage, barricade or active-shooter scenarios”. - The only reason a SWAT team and/or no-Knock warrant should be used for.

[B4Ranch]

swat-teams-claim-theyre-private-corporations-immune-from-open-records-laws/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/26/massachusetts-swat-teams-claim-theyre-private-corporations-immune-from-open-records-laws/

[Nowhere Man]

SWAT is getting out of hand, they should be under strict control where you only have 1, 2 or 3 per state although a side of me thinks maybe they should be banned. The militarization of law enforcement concerns me. I was sitting in my car eating lunch one time and noticed the local cop car parked next to me and I saw a CAR-15 inside. I can understand where if they need a shotgun handy, maybe a .30-30 Winchester but I think that is way overboard. Basically, they just need a revolver and a 1970’s era VHF/UHF walkie-talkie.

[ConservingFreedom]

JBT ping

[TigersEye]

Here is a story that definitely needs followup.

DHS Ransacks couple's home without explanation, strips woman naked

[Ken H]

#5 62 percent of all SWAT raids involve a search for drugs.

But the drug warriors at FR assure us that the increasing thuggery of American law enforcement has nothing to do with the WOD.

[OneWingedShark]

CWII Spark — All it would take is a community getting fed up with their local SWAT...