It's the police tactics that make these sort of things happen. The police use something called a "dynamic entry". The dynamic entry is intended to be used with suspects who are considered armed and dangerous. However, too many cowboy police outfits with not enough training and good judgement end up shooting of innoncent people at the wrong address.
A very good essay called Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America was written by the Cato Institute's Radley Balko. It discusses the increase in tactics like dynamic entries and midnight raids and the shift in police mentality into an us vs. them. That, combined with the rise of SWAT teams in every small town across America can lead to disaster. In this country, how has this:
become this:
Perhaps the men in the lower image are needed in a rare big-city hostage scenario. But to do the average pot raid? Police tactics have begun to claim more and more innocent lives. The war on drugs isn't worth it.
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