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>I think you probably underestimate how common SWAT-ing is. It's easy to underestimate unless you've listened to it happen tens of times in a single hour. The
by ryanlol 9y ago
>I think you probably underestimate how common SWAT-ing is.
It's easy to underestimate unless you've listened to it happen tens of times in a single hour.
The calls take two minutes or less, individuals have literally been competing on how many they could do within a single day.
"I'm at 725 5th Ave, I've shot a bunch of people and will shoot any police that come" Takes only seconds to say and would almost guarantee a heavily armed police response.
There must be thousands, possibly over ten thousand of these incidents every year.
- MaxfordAndSons 9y ago>There must be thousands, possibly over ten thousand of these incidents every year. It's a shame we can't have any reliable statistics based insight into exactly how often it happens because of the widespread policy amongst US police departments of not collecting and/or publicizing such data. The Obama DOJ was attempting to correct this trend (in a collaborative manner, which was the only available avenue) with many such departments, but cancelling that policy initiative was literally Jeff Sessions's first policy action as AG.