Swat Teams: Explosive Face-Offs With America's Deadliest Criminals

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Summary: Clearly written, above average
Review: A nice review about SWAT teams. The author explains about everything, including tactics, weaponry, all explained by examples. He also explains the need for SWAT teams. For European readers: the examples are little too "American". (Although, I have nothing against America)

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Summary: One of the best SWAT Teams books written till now
Review: Capt.Snow has showed in his book how difficult the SWAT Teams job is. How they not only have to face the perpetrators, but also the media in almost every times they are deployed, and the hostages families when the things don't go so wright as they would want. Snow explains many topics about SWAT Teams giving a very good information about and for this reason, I think this book must be only available for law enforcement. About this point he coments how many criminals copy systems ans tactics used for others. For this reason, I hope they don't read the book, because it would give it some advantage over the Police. Nevertherless, It's a very good book that I've enjojed a lot. Greetings to Capt. Snow.

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Summary: Swat Teams
Review: Since I was younger I've had an interest in special forces units, especially in S.W.A.T. teams. And though my knowledge on them was more than basic, I've always felt the need to know more. "Swat Teams..." was the perfect book, not only was it informative, but a great read that I had a hard time putting down. Snow, who is a Homicide Detective in the Indianapolis Police Department, breaks down S.W.A.T. in a chapter by chapter review. Some of the topics covered are the need for S.W.A.T. Team, Snipers, Intelligence & Training, and even the ocassional failures of S.W.A.T. A great read for anyone interested in the topic, or any reader in general.

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Summary: A story book
Review: This book is not a good book for people that are interested in learning SWAT tecnics and tactics. This book is a good book for people that are interested in SWAT storys.
Ovcourse that you learn something by reading these real life SWAT situations but is not enougth for someone that practices airsoft.

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Summary: A first-hand impression on a SWAT Team
Review: This book is one of the best books. It gives you a first hand impression of what SWAT Teams do. I enjoyed reading the different cases even more than how they solve it. It was still a really good book that always kept you on your toes. IT told about all the equipment. It could have had more pictures and have the pictures that they had, in focus more.

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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: This is a good book about SWAT how they work and all kind of different missions they do. It gives good information about SWAT and how they work. BUT I must say that this book don't "show" anything new! Everything is SOP ( and I am not a police officer) and it says the book show how to improve tactics-well it shows NOT!! It show some things, but...but how should I say- basic. The author could go much deeper into this I think. The book is good written but if you are looking to improve your tactics, well then this book is not for you. And like someone said "sometimes it is little TOO American" and I agree...
Good book for beginners and people who want to know how it is inside SWAT. For others, well maybee a good read but that's it.

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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: This is a good book about SWAT how they work and all kind of different missions they do. It gives good information about SWAT and how they work. BUT I must say that this book don't "show" anything new! Everything is SOP ( and I am not a police officer) and it says the book show how to improve tactics-well it shows NOT!! It show some things, but...but how should I say- basic. The author could go much deeper into this I think. The book is good written but if you are looking to improve your tactics, well then this book is not for you. And like someone said "sometimes it is little TOO American" and I agree...
Good book for beginners and people who want to know how it is inside SWAT. For others, well maybee a good read but that's it.

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Summary: Good as Introduction to SWAT
Review: This is a good introductory book for a person interested in finding out more about SWAT. However, it's little more than review for any law enforcement officer familiar with the basic SOP's and structure of their department's team. It is mostly anecdotal evidence and uses the same "suspect takes hostage, SWAT kills suspect or suspect surrenders" storyline to illustrate why those SOP's and structure exists.

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Summary: Good as Introduction to SWAT
Review: This is a good introductory book for a person interested in finding out more about SWAT. However, it's little more than review for any law enforcement officer familiar with the basic SOP's and structure of their department's team. It is mostly anecdotal evidence and uses the same "suspect takes hostage, SWAT kills suspect or suspect surrenders" storyline to illustrate why those SOP's and structure exists.