How to serve an arrest warrant, 1972 versus today

[Mike_Yates]

Here's an article written by a retired police veteran which talks about the frightening and out-of-control expansion of paramilitary law enforcement and how they are being misused on a daily basis.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/how-to-serve-a-warrant-1972-versus-today-by-lt-harry-thomas/

 

[MrRandyWatson]

Here's an article written by a retired police veteran which talks about the frightening and out-of-control expansion of paramilitary law enforcement and how they are being misused on a daily basis.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/how-to-serve-a-warrant-1972-versus-today-by-lt-harry-thomas/

Feh. At this point, half of America wants to turn this place into a totalitarian theocracy. Crowd them into a big chunk of the South and Midwest and let that place go to hell.

 

[phrodeau]

Feh. At this point, half of America wants to turn this place into a totalitarian theocracy. Crowd them into a big chunk of the South and Midwest and let that place go to hell.

Great, we'll need another wall.

 

[Mike_Yates]

SWAT teams were originally created to respond to dire emergency situations where human lives are at stake, such as barricaded persons, hostage situations, armed standoffs, bank robberies, active shooter events, terrorist incidents, etc..

But today, they are often being used for regular and routine police work that used to be handled by ordinary officers in a nonviolent and nonconfrontational way.

Literally hundreds of SWAT raids occur throughout America every single day, some of which are to serve arrest/search warrants for simple, nonviolent misdemeanor offenses, where the suspect does not have any criminal history.

There have been several dozen very tragic cases of homeowners being gunned down by SWAT teams because they mistook masked and armed men violently entering their house during the middle of the night for being a burglary or home invasion, and tried to defend themselves with a gun. Some of such cases happened after the police raided the wrong address.

 

[MrRandyWatson]

Great, we'll need another wall.

Well, we can always get Mexico to pay for it. Or Donald Trump. He has money.

 

[bassmanal]

What do you think would happen if the heroes kicked in a door and while they were swarming in screaming and swearing 3 or 4 homemade Claymores went off. Maybe the manly warriors would see the error of their ways.

 

[ryan8558]

What if you sent two regular patrolmen to serve an arrest warrant on a drug dealer (small time) and the guy answered the door with a shotgun and killed both officers??

That's why a lot of the warrants are served by SWAT.