Technicly, they droned the SWAT van."Swat the drone?"
After reading this I went to my daughters and got out their remote helo for a go at it. Not real hard to fly inside as you can only really hover etc. but outside it was a bear. Once you get up some speed the control response becomes hard to judge. Yes, with out some serious practice they are a handful.
You didn't crash it 'by accident' into a passing police car, by any chance?