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something about swat on now

r u guys watchen this? looks realy good

shit it missed that last night.

yeah it's pretty cool. I wish they were not so old tho.

most swat team member are older because they are the most experinced officers on the department, the PR department dosnt want a bunch of young dumb idiots runing into a room with mp5 shooting anything the looks like a crack addict.

[quote="rap1171"]most swat team member are older because they are the most experinced officers on the department, the PR department dosnt want a bunch of young dumb idiots runing into a room with mp5 shooting anything the looks like a crack addict.[/quote]

yea, i watched the show too. I thought it was alright. Dallas Swat is what the show is called. Personally i was very dissapointed because of how the show was formatted. I was hoping it be more of a "live action" swat type show. What i mean by this is that a lot of what was shown on the show was staged. Most of the interviews and talking that they did with the swat members while they were in the middle of the raid on the house was staged. By staged i mean that it was filmed after the suspect was taken into custody. I know this because my dad was on the sacramento police department SWAT team for 9 years and only just recently retired. He was watching the show with me and was telling me how the swat members would NEVER be "talking to the camera" while in the middle of a raid. I cpompletly understood what my dad ment by that when i saw the swat sniper (that was supposed to be covering his fellow partners) completly turn around to talk to the camera for like a whole minute while the raid was in progress. a real SWAT member would NEVER do anything like that! You could obviously tell that that sort of footage was shot after the raid was complete and the suspect had been apprehended. But yea, i guess you have to do things like that to make the show last longer and be more interesting. Overall i did like it and will continue to watch the serries.

oh yea, and about the whole age thing... most swat members are NOT young guys in there 20's like the movies show. This simply because you need experience to be on swat!! 2 years of patroll will not prepare you for swat. Inow im not saying that there are no swat members in their 20's because there are, just not very many of them. In my dads case he worked patroll for close to 15 years before he joined the swat team( he was in his 30's when he joined).

[quote="HummersRock88"]yea, i watched the show too. I thought it was alright. Dallas Swat is what the show is called. Personally i was very dissapointed because of how the show was formatted. I was hoping it be more of a "live action" swat type show. What i mean by this is that a lot of what was shown on the show was staged. Most of the interviews and talking that they did with the swat members while they were in the middle of the raid on the house was staged. By staged i mean that it was filmed after the suspect was taken into custody. I know this because my dad was on the sacramento police department SWAT team for 9 years and only just recently retired. He was watching the show with me and was telling me how the swat members would NEVER be "talking to the camera" while in the middle of a raid. I cpompletly understood what my dad ment by that when i saw the swat sniper (that was supposed to be covering his fellow partners) completly turn around to talk to the camera for like a whole minute while the raid was in progress. a real SWAT member would NEVER do anything like that! You could obviously tell that that sort of footage was shot after the raid was complete and the suspect had been apprehended. But yea, i guess you have to do things like that to make the show last longer and be more interesting. Overall i did like it and will continue to watch the serries.[/quote]

hahahaha

Well in that sharpshooter's defence. He clearly stated whlie they were walking out to the woods, "This is how I was setting up during that raid." He clearly stated how he was setup and what was going through his mind at the time. Not actually trying to do a mission.

u must be taking about a different scene from the show. The sniper im refrencing to was supposed to be coving the house while his fellow swat officers got read to make their entry. He then turned his head away from the house(and his rifle scope) to turn and talk to the camera for about a minute. What im saying is that that scene along with others from the show are obviously staged. Now im not saying that the whole show is staged because its not. Just little things like that are so that the show is more enjoyable to the viewers. If they didnt do things like that then the show would have been more like the TV show "cops." Personally I think it would be better if it were more like the show cops.