Various criminals, terrorists, what have you often take hostages as a bargaining chip.
Someone once asked me how to make the practice stop and my answer was 'Shoot the hostage'. The were shocked at what appeared to be such a calloused answer.
The truth is that people do that because we let them get away with it. We allow them to buy time, manipulate sympathies and so on in order to protect the hostage(s).
The hostage is their one bargaining chip and if we make it policy to take it away from them istantly then the practice of hostage taking will stop simply because it doesn't work anymore.
The answer is to go in and take the hostage taker out as quickly as possible and not negotiate at all. Not once in a while, not often, but every single time.
Over time that will save lives.
Some time ago, and I don't recall the fine details, a group took a Russian classroom hostage. The Russians simply wrote the children off as being dead and stormed in anyway and shot every single one of the terrorists dead.
Most of the students survived because of that. Most likely if they had negotiated and carried on when the terrorists realized they were not getting out they would have murdered the kids.
A former State Policeman once told me about a police seminar he attended that had a Russian policeman in the class.
They were discussing car chases and the instructor asked the Russian officer how they handled them. He replied, "Not happen in Russia. Have RPG in car."
Obviously the hostage isn't the target the good guys aim for but by refusing to permit them to use another person as a bargaining chip the practice of doing so will stop.
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I said this once and someone asked, "But what if the hostage is a little baby?"
"No exceptions. If you let them negotiate because they have an infant as a hostage then the forces of evil will start taking infants as hostages. Go in and take the hostage taker out," I replied. "Why do you want to see more little babies taken hostage? It means more dead babies in the long run."
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