> They should be investing in tools and techniques to evaluate reports and gather intel on site before "storming the house". Even basic old humint like "asking

> They should be investing in tools and techniques to evaluate reports and gather intel on site before "storming the house". Even basic old humint like "asking the neighbors if they heard any shots" seems to have been tossed aside. Yeah, I've suggested this very thing myself on several occasions, but basically people who are against engaging in self-defense and prefer to use police officers as their own personal security are dead set against any kind of reform on this point. You're really not going to get any kind of reform on this point until it's more than just little people who are being inconvenienced by this. Basically unless and until SWAT shoots someone "who matters" it won't change... because some people are REAL sure they need a militarized police force who can kick in your door at any time on the word of an anonymous jackass on the other end of an unsecured line.