SWATting

[khagler]

It's the Posse Comitatus Act, not the Constitution. It's not a blanket ban on using the military to enforce the law--it allows it when such use is "expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress." In practice, it's widely ignored in the "War on Drugs," and in any case US States all have their own militaries (called the National Guard) answerable to the state governor which it doesn't apply to at all. It's the National Guard that gets called out to deal with things like rioting or natural disasters.