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It sounds a bit like the Sioux City police are trying to justify having the level of equipment and facilities that they do. They roll out the whole party once in a while just to show that they can. It has got to be pretty hard to justify maintaining a full Strategic Emergency Response Team, hostage negotiations team, and a mobile command center if you don't use them at least once in a while.
A little community I used to live in had similar issues. They wanted a SWAT team and a tactical helicopter, so they got one on loan from the county. Then they spent most of there time dreaming up training mission to justify having one full time. I'm not saying that this was a training maneuver, but that it might have been used to justify the existence of the tactical teams etc.
In any case, I agree that it was a massively overblown response. I hate that our personal freedoms are taken away in this manner. It is not a matter of having too big of a government, it is a matter of having the government inserted too far into our lives in the wrong way. Instead of working to assist, educate, and take care of health care, the government wants to control, regulate, and destroy.
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