What this all boils down to is that it is time for the citizenry to stand up and DEMAND the elimination of 95%+ of "SWAT" activities by their local police department.

There is zero reason for these kind of raids even if was a serious drug dealer with several bales of pot in his basement.

This whole business of shouting "Search Warrant" twice at people that are dead asleep at oh-dark-thirty and than taking the fact that they haven't quickly and politely opened the door in 3 seconds to invited the officers in to look around (and maybe brew them a pot of coffee) as a pretext to kick the door in and run in shooting has just got to stop.

Its going to get innocent people (and dogs) killed.
Its going to get good cops killed.
Its going to erode the public's trust and confidence in the police and the law (which is the most dangerous aspect as that's one of the link pins of civilization).
Its NOT going to stop the bad people from doing the bad stuff.

Frankly I don't believe that Law Enforcement should be exempt from the NFA and the 86 FOPA closure of the MG registry either, but that's the whole "we need to demilitarize the popo" rant.