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Retired Houston SWAT officer Sandy Wall demonstrated his new The WallBanger bang pole for Police Magazine at the Safariland booth at SHOT Show 2010. Wall gives us a hands-on demo of this tactical equipment that deploys distraction devices prior to a building raid. Visit Wall's website for a video clip of The WallBanger in action. Video shot by Paul Clinton and edited by Heather Hendrixson.

Detectives with Spokane PD's gang unit executed a warrant on a suspected gang member's home. The tenant got a rude awakening courtesy of the SWAT.

The Prince George's County sheriff's office has concluded that SWAT deputies did nothing wrong when they charged into the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a drug investigation last summer and fatally shot his family's two dogs, the Washington Post reports.

Someday in the near future, an American community—probably far from an urban center—will find that one of its schools has been taken over by Muslim terrorists who are holding the students hostage. The time for American law enforcement officers to think about this possibility and train how to respond to it is now.

Is it always necessary to comply with knock notice before forcing entry to serve a search warrant?

Restating the obvious, a police officer should obtain a warrant before conducting a search.

As the number of tactical teams across the nation has increased for the past several years, the number of lawsuits being brought against tactical teams has also risen dramatically.

Just give me a hundred good cops and a ton of ammunition...