5 years in jail for being stupid and careless?

[theprof00]

The_Yoda said:

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.

I'm pretty sure they peak through the window among a bevy of other actions.
Generic is saying they should send two cops from around the corner to check out the scene and make sure the call is legit. That is nonsense.

When we have devolved to a point where we have to check if our citizens are telling the truth, then society is lost.
When the marathon bombers were hiding out in my neighborhood, they didn't move in with 1 or 2 cops at a time. You know what happened when previously, a lone cop responded to suspicious activity in that same area? He was killed. After that they sent into 8 cops to respond to the scene in watertown, along with the military.

My point isn't that we should respond with over the top force to ensure safety. My point is that if someone makes a call about a potentially extremely dangerous force, it should be met accordingly. Swat has all sorts of high tech equipment. Long range mics, radio scanners, jamming equipment, night vision, and most importantly layers upon layers of bulletproof gear. Cops have a gun and a notebook.