Some serious incompetence here. This video is from a SWAT service of a search warrant June 2, 2026.
A few comments.
So they are approaching a house where they KNOW there is no element of surprise. The armed criminal KNOWS you are there and are about to come knocking.
- There was a cop who was standing right in front of the window (he was the one with the shield and crossed in front of the cop with the bodycam just before the breach). He should have seen the shooter who was covering the door. What the hell was he doing, if not covering that window and whatever was behind it?
- They call the doorway a “fatal funnel” for a reason. Both of the two cops who were shot and wounded in this video were standing in the middle of the door.
- The cop who kicked the door in, did so while the one with the hydraulic ram was still on his knees in the middle of the door. In that position, the entry team can’t enter because the ram guy was in the way, and the outgoing fire is almost guaranteed to hit him. Stupid.
As they approached, you hear cops say: “The front door is open. Oh, he just shut it.”
This is a group of cops who have little experience making entries. “Oooh, we have special tactical uniforms and cool looking guns. That will scare everyone into compliance.”
The best comment was this one:
What happened was every cop there was hyper-focused on the door and breaching activity. No one was watching the backs of the entry team. This is incompetence and complete stupidity. Atlantic City PD has 300 officers for a city with a population of 39,000. Now you know that their SWAT operation is lacking in the training department.
I am beginning to suspect that this is the case for a majority of US police departments. It’s become trendy for police departments to have fully kitted out SWAT teams, but I suspect the vast majority of them don’t have the training to be effective against anything more than grandmothers, soccer moms, and the occasional gang banger whose homes they raid.
I was never on the SWAT team, but I did train with them and did go to the SWAT Round-Up International hosted in Orlando once. As a purely supporting role as a medic. I was never a member of any entry team. Still, I did attend some training, and this team looks like a bunch of amateurs trying to COSPLAY as operators operating operationally in support of operations.
9 Comments
Joe Blow · October 15, 2026 at 3:53 pm
In many of the cases, most of the weapons and vehicles are donations of ‘retired’ military hardware.
Tom · October 15, 2026 at 4:11 pm
I recently got hooked on first admendment audit videos as well as armed fisherman videoes. You can catch this in almost every interaction with cops. They focus on suspect or someone with a camera but i have seen pedestrains walk thru their scene while they were harassing guy with a camera. Any serious resistance to police or a for real ambush will be numerous cops dead. How many responded to uvadle? 400 plus?
Divemedic · October 15, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Read this:
https://areaocho.com/not-understanding-issue/
Henry · October 15, 2026 at 5:16 pm
Don’t forget all that cool surplus gear from DoW (1033 Program) that allowed podunk sheriffs and police departments to go full wannabe soldiers to execute search warrants.
Grumpy51 · October 16, 2026 at 12:30 am
Door guy spent WAY too long in front of the door. We used a ram (looked like a T-post driver), or should say our door guy used a ram. Blasts the door open on the lock side without exposing himself. Since the shield was present, it’s actually the first through the door. Flashbangs also usually preceded us.
Intel should’ve told them what to expect. If I heard correctly, weapon was by the wheelchair. Am I to presume a guy in a wheelchair took his revenge??
Skyler the Weird · October 16, 2026 at 6:57 am
Back in 2024 a Charlotte fugitive task force tried to serve a warrant on a well prepared felon. 8 shot, four dead. You don’t hear about it outside this area.
Don Curton · October 16, 2026 at 7:55 am
What happened to knocking on the door, announcing yourself, and giving the person inside enough time to respond and potentially surrender peacefully? Is that not done anymore? How do they decide someone is “dangerous” enough to warrant blasting the door open and shooting everyone inside?
Obviously I don’t know enough details about that video, but I personally think every SWAT team in the country should be disbanded and cops limited to 38 revolvers and 1 bullet each.
TRX · October 16, 2026 at 10:28 pm
Of course not! What’s the thrill of that? Dressing up to play “Swat Operator” and going in hot, that’s where the excitement is. If you knock first they might surrender peacefully, and nobody wants that.
I’ve been on the receiving end of that sort of thing. Had 10 of my town’s 15 officers in my yard, trying to kick my doors in. And a paddy wagon, borrowed from an adjacent town’d PD, and a TV van and camera crew. They destroyed one door and damaged another before they somehow got the idea they would be met with gunfire if they made it in the house.
When I asked to see the warrant, they told me they didn’t need one. Then that they didn’t have it with them. Then a 30-minute armed standoff while we all waited for the warrant to arrive, from two miles away. There wasn’t any freakin’ warrant until after I demanded to see one. When they passed it though the gap around my smashed door, it had the number of the house across the street, where the then-current unsavory residents had quietly sloped off after seeing the circus at my house.
And no, you can’t fight both the police and city hall; I wound up repairing the damage myself after getting nowhere. Well, at least they didn’t destroy my house with a trackhoe, as another PD did when “looking for a fugitive” who wasn’t even there.
I never liked cops much before. After that, they’re just another gang, with uniforms and a retirement plan.
TRX · October 16, 2026 at 10:16 pm
> Atlantic City PD has 300 officers for a city with a population of 39,000. Now you know that their SWAT operation is lacking in the training department.
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Criminy. I live in a town of 33,000. It had 15 sworn officers from the 1960s to the early 1990s, when they got some Federal money and went on a hiring spree. I think they have 20 officers now. Not that you ever see any; they built their new fortress police station with barbed wire and buzz-for-entry doors and seldom leave it.
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