SWAT teamswere created in the 1960s for a very specific set of - TopicsExpress

SWAT teamswere created in the 1960s for a very specific set of scenarios like hostage-taking, active shooter scenes and true emergencies, the ACLUs Kara Dansky told The Huffington Post previously. Were seeing increasingly that police are using SWAT teams to do raids of peoples homes often in low-level drug cases. This sometimes causes an escalated risk of violence, as we saw in this case. Only 7 percent of SWAT deployments in 2011 and 2012 were for situations involving a hostage, barricaded person, or active shooter, according to the report.