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Old 05-31-2019, 04:42 PM   #14
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: US Law Enforcement Response, Time, Scale and Coordination (Galveston, TX)

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Three cars with six cops in them, only half of whom have longarms, aren't going to successfully block two cars and a truck carrying a dozen men with longarms
Three cars ... and a helicopter who will follow them, keeping an eye on them, while an ever increasing swarm of police forces show up.

If the bad guys want to have any chance of success, the first thing they'll do after the raid it split up and ditch the hardware, because their only chance is sneaking. Fighting is just an elaborate way of committing suicide, staying in the area will eventually get them caught (it will take a couple days for the response to ramp up fully, but there will be an awful lot of people looking for them).
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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
This is why it's vital to know when there would be a helicopter in the air, who can ask for support from agencies that have one and how long it would take to reach the area in question.
Most urban areas will have something at least monitoring traffic in the air
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