[Jeff Higgins]

We, as a society, have allowed these erstwhile Rambos to proliferate among us. We need to reign them in. They are miss-used and over-deployed. There needs to be civilian oversight, not just over their actions, but over police actions as a whole. They work for us; they are policing us. We need to be policing them; they cannot be allowed to police themselves.

Having any sort of law enforcement agency reviewing the actions of another is a conflict of interest of the worst kind, much less these internal reviews that most get away with. Their actions need to be laid out on the table for the public to see; for the public to review. The public has every right, and every obligation, to determine how we are to be policed. Anything less will result in no less than a police state, where these kinds of unjustifiable raids (and other abuses of citizens' rights) will continue to proliferate. This is America, not East Germany. We, the citizenry, tell our police how to behave. Not the other way around.