New Police Powers

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We have different laws here which prevent Federalized military personnel from serving in country (unless it were to be suspended). Regardless hostage situations are extremely dynamic and the bad guy gets a heavy percentage of the vote. Having served on a tactical team for years I can tell you a lot of the issues are at the command level. Teams train a lot or at least ours did. What did not happen enough was the inside cats coming out to train with the outside cats. Guess who runs the show when it hits the fan, the inside cats. I've worked for some very good inside cats but they were the exception. Too many can not make the hard calls and are willing to play it safe until there is no other option left. Most team members will train as much as you allow them. The weak link that needs to be addressed is the command level IMO. Hopefully both ends get addressed. You can have a highly trained motivated set of hard chargers, but turn them over to someone that can make a hard decision and none of the rest matter. Best wishes to the good guys and gals regardless.