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JB3 wrote:The planning that goes into most swat operations leave it very unlikely of a wrong address for swat.

Note very likely, maybe 1 in 1000 raids, but it does happen:


John Adams:
64 years old
Lebanon, Tennessee
October, 2000 Shot to death during a SWAT drug raid while watching TV. The house didn't match the description on the warrant.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=19705



Willie Heard:
46 years old
Osawatomie, Kansas
February, 1999 SWAT conducted a no-knock drug raid, complete with flash-bang grenades. Heard was shot to death in front of his wife and 16-year-old daughter who had cried for help. Fearing home invasion, he was holding an empty rifle. The raid was at the wrong house.


Ismael Mena:
45 years old
Denver, Colorado
September, 1999 Mena was killed when police barged into his house looking for drugs. They had the wrong address.


Alberta Spruill:
57 years old
Harlem, New York
May, 2003 Police, acting on a tip, forced their way into Spruill's home, setting off flash grenades. She suffered a heart attack and died. It was the wrong address.


Accelyne Williams:
75 years old
Boston, Massachusetts
March, 1994 Accelyne was a retired Methodist Minister and substance abuse counselor. After an informant gave police a bad address, a SWAT raid was conducted on the minster's home. The door was battered down, Williams was tackled to the floor and his hands tied behind his back. He died of a heart attack.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/ ... ctims.html

This is certainly not a situation I'd want to be in. I've never been in that kind of situation... so I can only speculate.

Hopefully my dogs would alert me before anyone made it into the house. They're very good about that kind of thing ... so it should work.

SWAT may be using a marked vehicle, they may not be. If it's a marked vehicle, then things are easy.

If unmarked... things will get interesting.

SWAT seems to tend to yell "POLICE" and "SEARCH WARRANT"... and throw in flash bang grenades first.

The bad guys seem to yell "POLICE" without the "SEARCH WARRANT" part and just storm the place.

That could be clue.

I've noticed that in a surprise raid, SWAT will change tactics after they've taken gunfire. They slow down and do a slow tactical search... which takes a lot of time.

So some early gunfire may prevent an accident, by slowing down the tempo. Obviously you don't want to meet SWAT face-to-face with a gun in hand. For them a threat with gun in hand = shoot.

Just my thoughts... I don't have a true answer.

http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=4887406

"5/10/06
Burglars Posing as Cops Invade Lubbock Home

Lubbock Police have some positive leads after five men allegedly broke into a home, then beat and robbed the two people inside.

The incident happened at 233 Grover, just blocks away from Shadow Hills Golf Course in northwest Lubbock. Five men, who claimed to be Lubbock Police Officers, kicked in the door. When they entered, holding a shotgun, they told the two men inside that they were with the ATF.

Police arrived just before 2 a.m. on Wednesday. 21-year-old Antuwan Johnson and his roommate told police that the men tied their wrists with plastic restraints and demanded money and weapons. When they said they didn't have any the suspects kicked them and hit them with the shotgun. Then one of the suspects held a shotgun on the victims while the others ransacked the house and stole more than $450.

"They said, 'Don't move!' They all had walkie-talkies, and I hear a guy come on and he said 'The front's clear, everybody move out!' When they came in they knew what they were doing. They had planned this from... they had planned this for awhile," Johnson said.

The victims told police that the five men were wearing ski masks and bandanas to cover their faces. They also had on camouflage and ATF shirts. But police say they probably just associated what the suspects were wearing with what they heard.

Police say the suspects knew the victims and probably knew that there was cash inside the house. "