[kassemi]

Yes, but we can always try to solve the inconviences of our world in multiple venues. Let's try politics and simultaneously use the ingenuity we have to solve the problem while politics resolves.

I'd bet by stopping the water supply (out), disabling wifi and power, we can solve the destruction of evidence issue which could warrant the police actions.

Additionally, we could send a robot in place to search for unsafe conditions prior to the entry by armed police.

What other issues do we need to solve make this not happen while we wait for politics to catch up?

[zanny]

Biggest issue is that the military suppliers that end up giving local PDs all this war tech are being paid federally on an untouchable military budget. They produce the flashbangs outside market conditions at all and under guaranteed federal contracts, and when the US military doesn't actually need more tanks, APVs, and flashbangs they get raffled off to police departments.

So build your personnel sensing flashbang, these PD's won't get them, they rarely pay for this stuff. Its mostly free, or at least its on a fixed grant they need to spend or lose. There is no real market for a police department to deploy tanks and SWAT in a town of a thousand people.