Anyone could have answered that door, a parent, a visiting child, you or I. Of course the nay sayers will say that it would have been their fault for hanging out with criminals. I wonder just how well you have to know everyone you hang out with? Innocent & honest people could have been murdered that night. It was a major gun-ho cop disaster. The Strickland's did not get enough money and i wish that they could go after Long as well for being a twit. I am a middle aged woman with NO police experience and i could have planned how to arrest 3 college kids with no problem. I thought that cops were suppose to know their targets? Commonsense will tell you that they were just 3 white college kids that did something stupid, not hardened criminal minds. Take them out of class 1 by 1, duh. Its not like they were hiding.