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Tax it.
A state legislature could pass a law defining what constitutes "use" of a SWAT team (even if it's non-SWAT using certain tactics).
Appropriate taxes could be assessed on departments (local or federal) for each "use" and paid to the state treasury.
This would solve the problem of overuse to justify budget (and rein in over zealous Department of Education actions...).
If a SWAT team were truly needed for an incident, a department wouldn't even consider the expense when making that decision.
State-level law enforcement wouldn't be much affected.
Governors have the power to call out the NG, so exercising lower levels of police power seems to be appropriate to state-level government.
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