[kiryandil]

Should the police have waited until he started blowing people up with cell phone triggered bombs?

I trust that the police would have deployed a cell phone disruptor after the first half hour of the cornering.

[sleddogs]

Because they are illegal to everybody other than the Fed’s?

http://www.dpl-surveillance-equipment.com/articles/article_26.html

Furthermore, to state that cell phone jammers advertised are “[f]or [e]xport [o]nly. USA customers must be authorized Law Enforcement and/or Gov. [sic] Agency approved.” Section 302(c) of the Act and Section 2.807(d) of the Rules exempt radio frequency devices intended for use by the federal government from the general prohibition on marketing of unauthorized equipment. However, there is no similar exemption allowing the marketing or sale of unauthorized radio frequency devices to state and local law enforcement agencies.