On August 5, 2005, at 6:15 a.m., a SWAT team converged around the Sunrise, Florida, home of Anthony Diotaiuto. [...] By 7 a.m. the raid was over. Police had broken down Diotaiuto’s front door, and turned his home upside down looking for drugs, weapons, and drug paraphernalia. Diotaiuto
lay dead in a bedroom closet. He had 10 bullet holes in his head, chest, torso, and limbs.

Cato Institute policy analyst Radley Balko has written a paper examining the increased usage of SWAT teams against innocent or non-violent suspects. It paints a bleak picture for our civil liberties at the hands of an increasingly militarized police force, and to clearly illustrate this point the author also created an intractive map of all the incidents that he found in his research. You can order a hard copy of the paper, or read it in PDF format from the Cato Institute website.

Thanks to Kim du Toit for the tip.