{"id":1064,"date":"2009-04-08T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-04-08T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:43:18","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-beat-cop-vs-swat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/04\/08\/front-sight-mail-bag-beat-cop-vs-swat\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: Beat Cop vs SWAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>This is so insightful.<\/p>\n<p>I have often questioned the need for SWAT in the standard police department. I can see FBI (HRT) and AFT being responsible for this type of response when needed. To spend the money needed for a reactionary force is wasteful in local municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>They always arrive well into the event and in the case of Columbine. The time taken before they moved in, caused people to bleed out waiting for help.<\/p>\n<p>Just as with the courageous officer in NC. A well trained police force can take immediate action. A beat cop could have spotted the car blocking the door in the New York incident and called in the suspicious activity. Then entered to perhaps stop the killings or at a minimum, reduce the number killed. Community policing works!<\/p>\n<p>I like your straight talk and look forward to my visit to Front Sight in May.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Ken S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, This is so insightful. I have often questioned the need for SWAT in the standard police department. I can see FBI (HRT) and AFT being responsible for this type of response when needed. To spend the money needed for a reactionary force is wasteful in local municipalities. They always arrive well into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[9,57,56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}