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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #133 - Special Weapons and Tactics

01.25.12

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives
for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities,
and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).

On this bike ride, you might expect:
- inconvenient passageways
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- disorientation
- reorientation
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- full moon picnics
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0

Furthermore:
- usually 20-35 miles
- usually some hills
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!

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This week:

Special Weapons and Tactics, Part 1

As the incidence of urban violence increased, the tactical problems
facing police agencies in American cities increased accordingly.
During the late 1960s, riots in major metropolitan areas forced police
into crowd control situations for which they found themselves minimally
prepared. The emergence of the sniper as a threat to police and fire
department operations presented a further challenge to effective
curtailment of civil disorders. A still more volatile symptom of the
escalation of violence in our cities during the same period was the
appearance of the political assassin. More recently, the threat of urban
guerrilla warfare by certain militant organizations has become a reality.

It was obvious that the need existed to develop the capability to
successfully combat urban violence. The Department formulated a
special unit committed to the control of tactical situations which
were beyond the scope of the conventionally trained and equipped
police officer. The SWAT concept allows the merger of police and
military strategies under those conditions which require specialized
tactics. The primary advantage of the SWAT team is the flexibility
with which it can contain and control an emergency situation. The
team can infiltrate an area, attack an objective, or defend a position
depending on its particular mission. The primary concern of SWAT
personnel is the protection of innocent citizens while undertaking
measures to apprehend the perpetrators of crimes or violence.

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Our team should be prepared to climb a serious hill, ride off road a little,
and potentially arrive back late. However, the target is relatively close
to public transportation options, in case any officers need to abandon
the mission early. Indeed, we might all jump on the train on our way
back to headquarters.

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Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.

Posted by theroyalacademy

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