After these arrests, American tactical countermeasures and improvements in technology became more effective and the number of casualties from certain types of explosives declined.
When campus police drove onto the middle of the plaza to arrest him a serious tactical error students surrounded the cruiser.
But there is equal evidence that sometimes arrests and other tactical moves are haphazard, the reflection of erratic local priorities.
The officers, including members of the Detroit Police Department's vice squad and mobile tactical unit, placed the guests under arrest.
"Members of our tactical team and others conducted the arrest of the individual in question," McSwain said.
But the Washington police had clearly learned the tactical lesson of Seattle, making wholesale arrests simply to clear the streets.
The crackdown here has won a tactical and perhaps ephemeral victory through torture, arrests, job dismissals and the blunt tool of already institutionalized discrimination against the island's Shiite Muslim majority.
He arrested the man and alerted his tactical team, which found about 5,500 plants growing nearby, with a potential street yield approaching $16 million.
Police Chief Anthony Batts called a department-wide tactical alert and his depleted department worked overtime to arrest the shooter and the driver; both face murder charges and have denied their involvement.
Holmes, in a self-portrait taken on July 5, posed with a semi-automatic rifle and wore the tactical body armor he was wearing when he was arrested.
