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I'm willing to bet more people are harmed by SWAT teams than by heavily armed criminals using the same class of gear. A patrolman would've been more than suffi
by angersock 12y ago
I'm willing to bet more people are harmed by SWAT teams than by heavily armed criminals using the same class of gear.
A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this.
EDIT:
Just to make this painfully obvious...had he turned around quickly with a mouse in his hand, they quite possibly could have drilled him. Is that sort of risk really something we're okay with?
EDIT 2:
For the downvoters--notice that I said "same class of gear". How many criminals are actually busted carrying fully-automatic MP5s, assault rifles, shotguns, and body armor?
- anigbrowl 12y agoI'm not making an argument for SWAT teams, just about the difficulty of evaluating false reports of a serious crime. A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this. That sort of depends on what report was made in the 911 call(s), doesn't it? I mean, we know now it was just one guy playing videogames at home, but you can't just call 911 and ask for them to send a SWAT team somewhere. Presumably the dispatchers were led to believe that something much more dangerous was taking place.
- ASneakyFox 12y agoThat's the whole thing really. 911 responders have to make decisions with out being able to know the outcome ahead of time.
- tzs 12y ago> A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this In this case, according to the report at Ars, the 911 caller claimed to be a worker there who has shot two coworkers already and was holding the rest hostage. That's a bit much for a patrolman to deal with.