Radley Balko has a piece in the Washington Post about Salvatore Culosi, that unarmed optometrist who was accidentally shot to death by a SWAT team:
Fairfax apparently serves all of its search warrants with SWAT teams. But officials and county residents need to ask themselves if they want to live in a community in which routine police work and vice warrants are carried out by officers armed with gear more appropriate to a battlefield. Their answer may determine whether Salvatore Culosi represents an accident or a trend.