SWAT Wrong-Door Raids: Are You Next?

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If you think working, paying taxes, and obeying the law will keep police out of your house, well, you must not be living in America.

It's happening all across the country: police plan raids on the homes of criminals, from murderers to poker players, and they get the wrong house. At best, the victims are terrorized by paramilitary SWAT, or Special Weapons and Tactics, teams.

Using squad tactics, military weaponry, and raw fear, SWAT teams exist in every large city and in many smaller ones, such as Paradise, California, with a population of 26,000. There was a time these teams were deployed only to arrest high-risk targets, like suspected murderers and barricaded suspects. Nowadays it seems like SWAT teams are called out for almost anything: drug use, gambling, even pornography charges will bring armed and armored police to the scene.

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