Detailed and Fascinating: No More Wacos
After watching the TV mini-series Waco streaming on Netflix, I came across this early entry on that horrible assault and siege and fiery assault leading to the death of four federal officers and close to a hundred civilians.
Kopel and Blackman do an admirable job of being at once thorough, fair, and critical of all parties involved in this senseless tragedy. A key takeaway is how federal over-reach and hubris made an event that was logically unnecessary possible, indeed, nearly fated to occur.
They give some rather granular policy suggestions throughout the book, but what is most interesting is how utterly preventable these deaths were.
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