Your Life as Every Rank in a SWAT Team

You memorize where the children sleep, then rehearse the whole entry in a parking lot with traffic cones for walls. Then, at 3:00 in the morning, the door is real. Those traffic cones deserve a plaque of their own: they play the walls of a house for one night, then get to go back to being cones, which is more than 26 years of this job lets anybody do. 0:00 The Patrol Officer 2:13 The Candidate 5:15 The Probationary Operator 7:34 The Operator 10:01 The Breacher 12:24 The Sniper 14:35 The Team Leader 16:47 The Tactical Supervisor 19:22 The SWAT Commander 21:43 The Ghost Sources stacked on the door: SWAT roles, training and call-out duties (Wikipedia) SWAT and negotiators in barricade incidents (FBI Bulletin, NCJRS) Shotgun door breaching with frangible rounds (American COP Magazine) Police snipers as observers and rare shooters (KCUR) SWAT warrant raids and flashbang use (ACLU report) Flash grenade lands in toddler's playpen during raid (NBC News) Law enforcement officer suicide report to Congress (DOJ COPS Office)