5 years in jail for being stupid and careless?

[The_Yoda]

theprof00 said:
Im suggesting that recon be limited to necessity.
if I call the cops knowing there are multiple armed assailants in my house I want a task force, not the two guys who were just hanging out at the nearest red light.

Im not suggesting they do NO recon. Im countering the implication that no recon is done. The argument I saw was "bust down the door waving guns". I am almost 100% certain that is not what happens. I think the way it is currently handled is fine, and im sure they've gotten it down to a science. There are probably many manuals and revisions from years and years of small mistakes and efficiency protocols.

Again, responding to a call is not the problem. Abusing the system is.

Fair enough I suppose but I'm really struggling to come up with hostage scenarios where recon wouldn't be necessary ... perhaps our definitions of recon are different.  I consider recon to be any gathering of intelligence about a given situation.  It could be as simple as peaking in a window.