[Zigurd]

Here is why that won't happen: It makes the PDs look incompetent and liable for running dangerous heavily armed raids on private homes without sufficient care taken to avoid exposing innocent people to violence and potentially deadly errors.

[zimpenfish]

As good a place as any to drop Mr Balko's opus: "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" which is all about this kind of madness.

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...