Yesterday afternoon on my way home about a quarter mile from my house in Alamo, California police had traffic stopped. I counted 18 police cars and a police helicopter. Officers ran down the street, guns drawn, into neighbors yards and leaping over fences. There were more police cars parked on the freeway in case the suspects tried to run for the highway.
Alamo is a pretty quiet little suburb so I figured it would be low on list of Al Quaida terror cell sites. Well, it turns out that it wasn't anything quite so dramatic. Apparently 4 unarmed men burglarized a Longs drug store, stealing liquor and crashed their car during the "get away". Apparently this was a HUGE threat to the safety of my community.
http://origin.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7831660?nclick_check=1
By the way, DO NOT EVEN THINK about jaywalking in my town, buster!