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Originally Posted by Pete
I just wanted to know how well "on viewed" stats fit in with SWAT Team use.
Seems to me there would need to be a SWAT Team every 10 blocks or so.
With officers on duty every police department is going to have "on viewed" incidents.
But I'm willing to bet "on viewed" is a very small percentage of total crimes in any given city.
And most of the major events/perps named in this thread were not "on viewed".
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That's a good question. Are you talking about full time SWAT Units, Part time, or regional or agencies with a combo? Most major cities have a matrix or risk assessment that dictates when SWAT usage is covered. When I was on the part time team, I on viewed lots of stuff and that was because SWAT was a collotoral assignement and my main assignment was patrol. Being on the full time SWAT Platoon and a SWAT Team Leader, I don't on view anything since my job scope is different.
Of course every dept will have on view incidents, my point and I'm willing to bet is the larger agencies will have the staffing and resources to on view more than smaller agencies.