Let’s have a thought experiment. Let’s come up with the most ridiculous, beyond-the-pale, Onion-esque play on the overuse of SWAT teams we can possibly imagine.

If I were playing such a game, I think my scenario might sound something like, “SWAT team raids team of Tibetan monks on world peace mission who accidentally overstay their visas.”

I can hear the defenders of ubiquitous SWAT raids now. “Hey man, you never know when a Tibetan monk on a peace mission is going to answer an immigration official with a black-market Kalashnikov. Better to be prepared.”

You see where I’m going. It’s not a joke. The shit actually happened.

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 25th, 2006 at 9:04 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Police Militarization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.