[r3vo]

"Two officers will come to the door, ask if everything is ok, perhaps ask to look around, and then leave as calmly as they arrived."

Did you read what Barris told the police operator in the article?

"Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside."

It is an absolutely reasonable and necessary response for the police to respond to such a threat with the level of force that they did.

I am extremely skeptical that other countries police would handle a potential murder/hostage situation like that by calmly walking to the door and asking if everything is ok. They would be foolish to do so.

[baud147258]

I remember an account by a French SWAT equivalent (The RAID). In that story, it was an hostage situation, with the hostage held with the knife in an appartement. The officer in charge decided to try to negotiate, all the while the RAID team was waiting next to the door.