SWAT Team Heroically Ends 6 Hour Standoff with Empty Apartment

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That headline is enough reason to post. :lol:


Link to video.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/201...kdown-in-north-oak-cliff.html/?nclick_check=1
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/swat-team-heroically-ends-6-hour-standoff-empty-apartment/
Well that’s embarrassing.

The Dallas Ft Worth area SWAT forces are known for their bravery and ability to deter crime. Just last year they kept America safe by raiding an organic farm and taking their tomato plants.

They continued this stellar level of protection and service over the weekend by peacefully ending a standoff with an empty apartment.

After no one got to kill anyone for 6 hours they finally got tired of waiting. They quickly banged down the door and to everyone’s disappointment, there was nobody inside to shoot first and ask questions later.

No this is not a story from the Onion.
Obviously there is a tinge of sarcasm in the previous paragraph and that was used to shed light on the utter stupidity of tax-payer money being used to build a giant militarized force that operates under the same bad intel which the armed forces have used to justify large scale murder worldwide.
DALLAS –– A six hour standoff that began after a woman reported being sexually assaulted by multiple men in an Oak Cliff apartment ended with police bursting in and finding no one inside.
Dallas police are now verifying the 25-year-old woman’s story.


For extra giggles I looked up their previous heroic effort: The Liberation Of The Tomato Plants!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/texas-swat-team-conducts-_n_3764951.html

A small organic farm in Arlington, Texas, was the target of a massive police action last week that included aerial surveillance, a SWAT raid and a 10-hour search.

Members of the local police raiding party had a search warrant for marijuana plants, which they failed to find at the Garden of Eden farm. But farm owners and residents who live on the property told a Dallas-Ft. Worth NBC station that the real reason for the law enforcement exercise appears to have been code enforcement. The police seized "17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers," after holding residents inside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie Smith said in a statement. The raid lasted about 10 hours, she said.

Local authorities had cited the Garden of Eden in recent weeks for code violations, including "grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises," Smith's statement said. She said the police didn't produce a warrant until two hours after the raid began, and officers shielded their name tags so they couldn't be identified. According to ABC affiliate WFAA, resident Quinn Eaker was the only person arrested -- for outstanding traffic violations.

The city of Arlington said in a statement that the code citations were issued to the farm following complaints by neighbors, who were "concerned that the conditions" at the farm "interfere with the useful enjoyment of their properties and are detrimental to property values and community appearance." The police SWAT raid came after "the Arlington Police Department received a number of complaints that the same property owner was cultivating marijuana plants on the premises," the city's statement said. "No cultivated marijuana plants were located on the premises," the statement acknowledged.

The raid on the Garden of Eden farm appears to be the latest example of police departments using SWAT teams and paramilitary tactics to enforce less serious crimes. A Fox television affiliate reported this week, for example, that police in St. Louis County, Mo., brought out the SWAT team to serve an administrative warrant. The report went on to explain that all felony warrants are served with a SWAT team, regardless whether the crime being alleged involves violence.

In recent years, SWAT teams have been called out to perform regulatory alcohol inspections at a bar in Manassas Park, Va.; to raid bars for suspected underage drinking in New Haven, Conn.; to perform license inspections at barbershops in Orlando, Fla.; and to raid a gay bar in Atlanta where police suspected customers and employees were having public sex. A federal investigation later found that Atlanta police had made up the allegations of public sex.

Other raids have been conducted on food co-ops and Amish farms suspected of selling unpasteurized milk products. The federal government has for years been conducting raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states that have legalized them, even though the businesses operate openly and are unlikely to pose any threat to the safety of federal enforcers.
 
Why did they wait six hours if they thought a woman was being sexually assaulted inside by multiple men? That alone is ridiculous.
 
Why did they wait six hours if they thought a woman was being sexually assaulted inside by multiple men? That alone is ridiculous.
It sounds more like that the woman reported being previously assaulted there, so the police has SWAT raid it.
 
Why did they need a SWAT team? Did they sexually assault her with high-powered rifles and ballistic armor?
 
It is funny but you can not blame them for waiting.

It is better to give people a chance to surrender.
 
Well, after 6 hours of intense negotiation, the empty appartment did finally surrender. Despite this, the cops did kick in the doors of the defenseless appartment. To no one's surprise: The appartment was black. :crazyeye:
 
It is funny but you can not blame them for waiting.
Can you blame them for being so incompetent that they didn't determine after 6 hours that the apartment was empty?
 
Why did they need a SWAT team? Did they sexually assault her with high-powered rifles and ballistic armor?

Only in America...

Also SWATting.
 
to be fair, they DID determine after 6 hours that the apartment was empty.
give them credit for that at least.

I'm curious how you would have handled the issue if you were the lieutenant in charge. What would you have done differently?

Imagine a beaten and battered woman stumbles in saying how people at this apartment were beating her and that they are armed with guns. You rush over to the apartment and there's no sign of people. What would you do? How long is it appropriate to wait until you raid the building?

What happened here is patently absurd, but I'm not sure what I would do different.
 
The news story I found doesn't say anything about the woman saying the suspects were armed, only that the police thought the suspects were armed.
 
This from the Dallas News piece linked in post one: '“The victim advised officers that the suspects were still inside the apartment and might be armed,” according to a statement from police.'
 
All I got was a paywall asking me to login. When did they make the statement? Just curious.

Anyway, is a SWAT team the response any time a suspect is thought to be armed?
 
That from the 2:45pm update to the story. Don't know the time of the statement.
 
I'm curious how you would have handled the issue if you were the lieutenant in charge. What would you have done differently?
You mean like using those play toys they all have to determine who is in a given building or apartment?
 
Can you blame them for being so incompetent that they didn't determine after 6 hours that the apartment was empty?

How do you know that there is no one inside if you get no response.
 
How do you know that there is no one inside if you get no response.
You mean like infrared sensors as well as video and audio surveillance devices?

How inept and powerless do you think they are?
 
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