Into the Kill Zone by David Klinger

Author:David Klinger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

SWAT: Call-Outs to the Kill Zone

As previously noted, many of the individuals I interviewed were SWAT officers. The myriad sorts of operations that these officers are called upon to handle fall into two general categories: call-outs and preplanned operations. Call-outs happen when patrol officers, detectives, or officers working some other assignment find themselves in special-threat situations that crop up unexpectedly—almost always barricaded-suspect or hostage situations—and call for SWAT assistance to resolve the ongoing problem. Preplanned operations are those in which the SWAT team is brought in to handle some sort of high-risk operation from the start. The most common sort of preplanned SWAT operation by far is the service of high-risk warrants, primarily search warrants for narcotics. Among the other sorts of preplanned activities that SWAT teams sometimes engage in are stakeouts and serving as the arrest team in sting operations that involve unusually dangerous individuals.

The stories in this section give the reader a sense of the sorts of circumstances in which SWAT officers shoot suspects during call-outs. They include shootings that happened during both barricade and hostage situations, shootings that occurred during long-lasting standoffs and those that happened soon after officers arrived on scene, shootings in which the officer I interviewed was the only SWAT officer to shoot and those in which others fired also, shootings in which the officers were just a few feet from suspects and those in which they were a considerable distance away, and—in a classic example of suicide-by-cop—one shooting in which the suspect clearly wanted to die. Together these stories show what happens and how SWAT cops think, feel, and react when they are called out to deal with situations that are beyond the ken of ordinary officers.

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