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Oregon SWAT Email: 'Jonesing' for Gas Canisters?

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Oregon State Police's SWAT recruitment email, penned by Sgt. Jamin VanMeter, invites troopers to 'fire 40mm less lethal rounds' and 'launch gas canisters,' raising eyebrows over its aggressive tone. The email also boasts of snipers resolving 'dramatic and highly intense' hostage situations.

The email's vivid language, including phrases like 'setting an explosive breaching charge which, when detonated, blows the door off with a sound that can be heard for miles,' has led to internal corrective action against VanMeter. State police emphasized that 'any glamorization of the use of force is not only contrary to agency values, but contradictory to the SWAT team’s history of resolving public safety incidents with a reduction of force.'

In a twist of irony, the recruitment email's attempt to attract new SWAT members by highlighting intense scenarios has instead spotlighted the department's commitment to de-escalation and restraint.

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