I don't give them the benefit of the doubt and do have a problem with how ineffectively they're prosecuted for their conduct. But it's worth bearing in mind that in these SWAT-ing scenarios, they're deliberately put into the one uncommon circumstance that drives practically all of the rest of their abuse. It's a singularly evil thing to do.

We’re going to hold strangers on Xbox live to a higher degree of accountability than highly trained officers. Sadly this makes perfect sense. These officers are the equivalent of trained killer dogs and this is what we should expect.

We're going to hold strangers who use their Xboxes as an excuse to attempt to kill people accountable, independent of anything else we do. Respectfully: this is pretty simple grown-up logic.

I can pick up the phone and have the police kill you, and you don’t think that’s a problem? Explain that logic.

Trying to kill someone because they beat you in a game is significantly more evil than trying to kill someone because you mistakenly believed they posed a threat to human life.

There’s a ballot initiative here in Washington called I-940 that will do exactly what you describe if passed. It’d be great to see it replicated across the country: http://www.deescalatewa.org/

That's very interesting! I hope it signals the start ofa trend.