Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Asking because I don’t really know. Do local SWAT units serve federal warrants? I thought that was US Marshall and/or FBI.
The answer is yes.
Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
Wait for swat means why risk my ass? No knocks are to keep the drugs from being flushed
Not worth it IMO
Just go in at lunch time. No overtime needed. Arrest them on the sidewalk when they go out, and then go in to the apartment. I agree it's not worth it. We've been doing these no knock late night raids for decades and it has accomplished?
Wait for swat means why risk my ass? No knocks are to keep the drugs from being flushed
Not worth it IMO
Just go in at lunch time. No overtime needed. Arrest them on the sidewalk when they go out, and then go in to the apartment. I agree it's not worth it. We've been doing these no knock late night raids for decades and it has accomplished?
Leave a bag of weed on their porch, wait to see the smoke and 20 minutes later, they're either coming out to get munchies or a pizza guy is going in with their pie. Works like a Charm.
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Educate yourself . . . Swat teams vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction . . . Swat teams are highly trained and used only in special circumstances that are supposed to be justified (articulated) prior to execution of the subject search/arrest warrant.
Execution of the vast majority of arrest/search warrants DO NOT involve SWAT teams.
Highly Trained? Bullshit. And if you can fog a mirror you'll get a warrant.
There are so many stupid fucking cowboy cops in SPD it's a decades-long joke of a department. Most hate the City and treat citizens like dirt. And they lie like rugs, make up total bullshit on the fly "This is Private Property" they'll yell while standing on a City Sidewalk or County Property, and the list goes on and on. I've read the same fucking police reports with the exact same "observations" a hundred times. Some cops are too stupid to even proofread their reports after sitting on their asses collecting overtime, probably while watching porn.
Despite all of the above, I support cops because their job is a fucking dumpster fire, and I do sympathize. But don't pretend for a second they are heroes, or follow the law, because I know better. There are too many power-hungry dicks on the force and they've brought much of this present shit show upon themselves.
What is the basis for your opinions? e.g., “And if you can fog a mirror, you’ll get a warrant . . . Some cops are too stupid to proofread their reports . . .”
BTW: I said SWAT teams are highly trained, not all police.
You sound very sympathetic in paragraph 2 of your diatribe.
Are you a defense attorney?
Are you a prototypical High School loser dick who became a cop to take his revenge upon the society that rejected him?
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Asking because I don’t really know. Do local SWAT units serve federal warrants? I thought that was US Marshall and/or FBI.
The answer is yes.
Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
Curious as to when I said a law degree was a requirement for the FBI?
Emergency Response Team (ERT): ERT’s primary duties consist of a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, mobile security patrols, investigations, traffic enforcement, and physical security duties/responsibilities. The specialized teams constitute and operate in the event of a high-risk situation.
National Institutes of Health
Special Response Team (SRT): The SRT’s mission is to protect the NIH community from internal threats, such as active shooters, and external threats from domestic or foreign terrorists. The SRT is trained in tactics optimized to neutralize threats to Select Agent storage areas, irradiators, patient clinics, and laboratories. The SRT also provides dignitary protection during presidential, congressional, and foreign heads of state visits.
US Dept of Education
Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family in custody for hours.
Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning.
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"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."
Wright's terrified children -- ages 3, 9 and 11 -- were forced to sit in a patrol car for two hours. Wright himself was in custody for six hours. "I felt really bad for those kids," a neighbor said.
Federal agents for the Education Department's inspector general executed a very broad search warrant and seized paperwork and a personal computer. Wright says the law enforcement agents -- who reportedly included 13 with the Education Department and one or two Stockton police officers -- told him they were investigating his estranged wife's use of federal aid for students. But she doesn't even live in his house.
A federal spokesman tried to distance the Education Department from the raid by emphasizing that the IG runs a "semi-independent office." But that begs the question of why a federal agency overseeing education policy should have an IG who can send agents armed with guns into Americans' homes. Or why the department has SWAT-style teams of agents to begin with.
Amtrak Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations
Members of the Special Operations Unit (SOU) support Patrol operations by providing rapid response and enhanced capabilities to assist in keeping Amtrak passengers and employees safe.
United States Mint Police (USMP) Special Response Teams (SRT)
I guess I'm old enough to remember the outrage a few years back when heavily armed, armored bank robbers thoroughly outgunned the local police in a shoot out and many wondered why the police didn't have better firepower than the criminals.
I guess I'm old enough to remember the outrage a few years back when heavily armed, armored bank robbers thoroughly outgunned the local police in a shoot out and many wondered why the police didn't have better firepower than the criminals.
Very true while also being a pretty extreme outlier. But a good role for SWAT teams where exists an imminent danger to life and property. Kicking down wrong doors in the middle of the night, not so much.
If I know my history of corrupt police and sheriffs, and I do because I watched Porky’s approximately 81 times as a middle-schooler, things might actually be slightly better now.
If I know my history of corrupt police and sheriffs, and I do because I watched Porky’s approximately 81 times as a middle-schooler, things might actually be slightly better now.
Strictly in terms on SWAT usage, it's grown and continues to grow.
If I know my history of corrupt police and sheriffs, and I do because I watched Porky’s approximately 81 times as a middle-schooler, things might actually be slightly better now.
Strictly in terms on SWAT usage, it's grown and continues to grow.
Yeah but those are just facts. My opinion matters more.
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Asking because I don’t really know. Do local SWAT units serve federal warrants? I thought that was US Marshall and/or FBI.
The answer is yes.
Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
Curious as to when I said a law degree was a requirement for the FBI?
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Asking because I don’t really know. Do local SWAT units serve federal warrants? I thought that was US Marshall and/or FBI.
The answer is yes.
Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
Curious as to when I said a law degree was a requirement for the FBI?
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Asking because I don’t really know. Do local SWAT units serve federal warrants? I thought that was US Marshall and/or FBI.
The answer is yes.
Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
Curious as to when I said a law degree was a requirement for the FBI?
That was HH, the imbecile with the law degree and MBA from UW; the old guy who is always insulting the elderly.
Emergency Response Team (ERT): ERT’s primary duties consist of a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, mobile security patrols, investigations, traffic enforcement, and physical security duties/responsibilities. The specialized teams constitute and operate in the event of a high-risk situation.
National Institutes of Health
Special Response Team (SRT): The SRT’s mission is to protect the NIH community from internal threats, such as active shooters, and external threats from domestic or foreign terrorists. The SRT is trained in tactics optimized to neutralize threats to Select Agent storage areas, irradiators, patient clinics, and laboratories. The SRT also provides dignitary protection during presidential, congressional, and foreign heads of state visits.
US Dept of Education
Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family in custody for hours.
Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning.
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"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."
Wright's terrified children -- ages 3, 9 and 11 -- were forced to sit in a patrol car for two hours. Wright himself was in custody for six hours. "I felt really bad for those kids," a neighbor said.
Federal agents for the Education Department's inspector general executed a very broad search warrant and seized paperwork and a personal computer. Wright says the law enforcement agents -- who reportedly included 13 with the Education Department and one or two Stockton police officers -- told him they were investigating his estranged wife's use of federal aid for students. But she doesn't even live in his house.
A federal spokesman tried to distance the Education Department from the raid by emphasizing that the IG runs a "semi-independent office." But that begs the question of why a federal agency overseeing education policy should have an IG who can send agents armed with guns into Americans' homes. Or why the department has SWAT-style teams of agents to begin with.
Amtrak Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations
Members of the Special Operations Unit (SOU) support Patrol operations by providing rapid response and enhanced capabilities to assist in keeping Amtrak passengers and employees safe.
United States Mint Police (USMP) Special Response Teams (SRT)
United States Park Police (USPP) SWAT Team
These are token SWAT teams and I will never defend them.
SWAT teams that have adequate resources, train constantly and are deployed on a “regular” basis are needed.
Federal SWAT teams of smaller agencies are a joke.
Example: ATF in initial Waco raid; and ATF is not a small agency.
Emergency Response Team (ERT): ERT’s primary duties consist of a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, mobile security patrols, investigations, traffic enforcement, and physical security duties/responsibilities. The specialized teams constitute and operate in the event of a high-risk situation.
National Institutes of Health
Special Response Team (SRT): The SRT’s mission is to protect the NIH community from internal threats, such as active shooters, and external threats from domestic or foreign terrorists. The SRT is trained in tactics optimized to neutralize threats to Select Agent storage areas, irradiators, patient clinics, and laboratories. The SRT also provides dignitary protection during presidential, congressional, and foreign heads of state visits.
US Dept of Education
Add the U.S. Department of Education to the list of federal agencies that can invade your home at gunpoint and hold you and your family in custody for hours.
Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning.
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"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."
Wright's terrified children -- ages 3, 9 and 11 -- were forced to sit in a patrol car for two hours. Wright himself was in custody for six hours. "I felt really bad for those kids," a neighbor said.
Federal agents for the Education Department's inspector general executed a very broad search warrant and seized paperwork and a personal computer. Wright says the law enforcement agents -- who reportedly included 13 with the Education Department and one or two Stockton police officers -- told him they were investigating his estranged wife's use of federal aid for students. But she doesn't even live in his house.
A federal spokesman tried to distance the Education Department from the raid by emphasizing that the IG runs a "semi-independent office." But that begs the question of why a federal agency overseeing education policy should have an IG who can send agents armed with guns into Americans' homes. Or why the department has SWAT-style teams of agents to begin with.
Amtrak Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations
Members of the Special Operations Unit (SOU) support Patrol operations by providing rapid response and enhanced capabilities to assist in keeping Amtrak passengers and employees safe.
United States Mint Police (USMP) Special Response Teams (SRT)
United States Park Police (USPP) SWAT Team
These are token SWAT teams and I will never defend them.
SWAT teams that have adequate resources, train constantly and are deployed on a “regular” basis are needed.
Federal SWAT teams of smaller agencies are a joke.
Example: ATF in initial Waco raid; and ATF is not a small agency.
Sooooooooooooo, you're saying a lot of these guys are not well-trained, but like to play dress-up and act like cowboys? Just want to be clear, here. Don't want to split hairs.
Some of their suggestions for cuts include targeting:
Recruitment, retention and pay bonuses for new hires. - sure, let's make all the police officers quit due to bad morale and then remove any incentives to get good new police officers.
The city's Navigation team. - This has nothing to do with defunding the police. It's a way to allow the homeless situation to grow.
Data Driven Policing. - Yeah, why would we need that?
North Seattle Precinct capital project. - Let the facilities in the north go into disrepair.
The department's SWAT unit. - This is the scariest of all.
Contracts with law firms hired to defend SPD police misconduct. - Equal representation under the law? ummm no.
Move the Transfer Crisis Intervention unit out of the police department. - Yeah, give this to the libtards. -
Let me be clear, I don't think they need less funding, they need more. For training. And also a wholesale culture change.
That said I can get behind de-funding SWAT. I don't believe for a second they should have an outfit that looks like they should be on the streets of Fallujah. This has always bothered me. It's antagonistic and unnecessary. This is part and parcel of the much needed culture change.
Change my mind.
Swat isn't dealing with average Joe citizen. They're given the hardest and toughest people and situations. Lol at defunding swat. Go ahead and send your social workers in those situations and see how it works out.
Do we really need an armored personnel carrier rumbling down the street full of armor clad wannabe soldiers to serve a Federal Warrant?
Yes. Armored vehicles are free from the military. They've been used in many stand offs and to conduct rescues in active situations.
Barricaded suspects especially with hostages are where SWAT teams are really needed. Hard to replace. Lots of training and experience counts.
They're not soldiers. When we got mixed up in the middle east the military came to SWAT teams to learn their tactics and skills. The military is used to brute force to solve problems and that wasn't acceptable.
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Marshal’s execute arrest warrants and have fugitive teams that locate and arrest wanted folks.
It depends . . . In Portland and Seattle, they have SWAT teams for the PD’s and the FBI (in each office).
SWAT teams are utilized in very high-risk warrants and ongoing violent/potentially violent situations (hostage situations, active shooter, etc.)
It is not necessary to have a federal agency execute a federal search warrant. All that’s necessary is that the affiant on the Affidavit for the warrant is a federal agent.
Local SWAT teams, although occasionally used by the Feds, generally are the go-to guys.
During my 25-year career in Portland, the FBI SWAT team was never used by my office.
A special shout-out to Mr. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: FY HH!!!
BTW: A law degree is STILL NOT a requirement to be a FBI agent as you once believed.
National Institutes of Health
US Dept of Education
Kenneth Wright learned this the hard way last week, when federal "education" agents busted down the front door of his Stockton, Calif., home at 6 in the morning.
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"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or SWAT team," a neighbor told a national news affiliate. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."
Wright's terrified children -- ages 3, 9 and 11 -- were forced to sit in a patrol car for two hours. Wright himself was in custody for six hours. "I felt really bad for those kids," a neighbor said.
Federal agents for the Education Department's inspector general executed a very broad search warrant and seized paperwork and a personal computer. Wright says the law enforcement agents -- who reportedly included 13 with the Education Department and one or two Stockton police officers -- told him they were investigating his estranged wife's use of federal aid for students. But she doesn't even live in his house.
A federal spokesman tried to distance the Education Department from the raid by emphasizing that the IG runs a "semi-independent office." But that begs the question of why a federal agency overseeing education policy should have an IG who can send agents armed with guns into Americans' homes. Or why the department has SWAT-style teams of agents to begin with.
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United States Mint Police (USMP) Special Response Teams (SRT)
United States Park Police (USPP) SWAT Team
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Very good book, eye opening for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Warrior_Cop
But we tend to Gulf of Tonkin shit where all of a sudden we have 500,000 troops on the ground
Sorry, I didn’t make that clear.
SWAT teams that have adequate resources, train constantly and are deployed on a “regular” basis are needed.
Federal SWAT teams of smaller agencies are a joke.
Example: ATF in initial Waco raid; and ATF is not a small agency.
Barricaded suspects especially with hostages are where SWAT teams are really needed. Hard to replace. Lots of training and experience counts.
They're not soldiers. When we got mixed up in the middle east the military came to SWAT teams to learn their tactics and skills. The military is used to brute force to solve problems and that wasn't acceptable.