Using SWAT officers to storm into homes to execute search warrants has led timeand again to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries, and costly legal settlements. By Kevin Sack From the lengthy article: As policing has militarized to fight a faltering war on drugs, few tactics have proved as dangerous as the use of forcible-entry raids to serve narcotics search warrants, which regularly introduce staggering levels of violence into missions that might be accomplished through patient stakeouts or simple knocks at the door. Thousands of times a year, these “dynamic entry” raids exploit the element...