I'm not sure I can buy this. I keep reading too many horror stories about the bureaucratic bungling of simple details in all aspects of government to put too much trust in police making no mistakes.JB3 wrote: The planning that goes into most swat operations leave it very unlikely of a wrong address for swat.
John
A couple of years ago I had an officer roll up to the driveway behind my house where I was working on a car. He jumped out and asked me about the fight he said was going on in my yard. I told him, "Sorry, no fight here!" I had been there all day, and nothing of the sort had gone on.
He got irate with me, threatening me if I were hiding something from him. When he finally mentioned the address, it was two streets over, with the same numbers. He's an officer who has been on the force here for several years, but he got his streets mixed up that day. We live in a small town of only 9,000 people, so there aren't that many streets. What if it were a metropolis?
BTW, he never apologized for his rude behavior before or after realizing his mistake. Police are human. They are going to make mistakes, even without the bureaucracies to mess things up.