Re:-1, flamebait (Score 1)

If the swat team accidentally shoots innocent people, then the swat team is at fault. In fact, courts have backed this up - if you're in a bank, doing legal business, and a cop shoots you while trying to stop a robbery, you're getting your medical bills paid by the city, and if you die your family will win a wrongful death suit.

While this is true, you ignore the fact that a wrongful death suit only attributes a civil liability and not criminal. In fact, only the robbers could be charged with homicide even if the victims were only shot by police because it would be a foreseeable result of the commission of a felony.

I don't intend to tread into the minefield (no pun intended) of the moral complexities of collateral damage, but just wanted to point out that the US justice system does recognize a difference in responsibilities.