It Happened To Me: SWAT Handles Suicidal EDP with Knife On Roof

By Tactical-Life

Our squad had just started some trigger time on the range, working with our handguns, when radio reached us on the firing line.

SWAT was needed in the East Division for an emotionally disturbed person (EDP) armed with a knife on a rooftop. It was now time for the team to quickly pack up and caravan out to this priority assignment.

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I knew the location well. It was in my old stomping grounds when I started my policing career in patrol. That part of town was jumping in narcotics sales: heroin, crack and weed. This particular block was just two blocks away from one of the busiest heroin corners in the city, if not the whole East Coast, at that time. The location was also one of the active “alphabet-lettered” streets going north and south, a main thoroughfare in and out of the neighborhood. To add to the excitement, it was a very congested residential block of row houses where all of the rooftops were connected and lots of people were out to watch the police activity. Our subject had free reign up and down the block via this elevated position on the blacktop …Read the Rest

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