Unlike the common Stanley pry bar, this one has a "special hole pattern" which, I assume, controls blood splatter.
A pry bar works primarily based on leverage. Leverage requires length by definition. Railroad workers can move a section of railroad track using a tool which is esentially a pry bar about eight or even ten feet long called a gandy pole. They literally put their body weight onto the pole and that long lever amplifies that weight and turns it into force and applies that force to the rail. Using this simple method, a gandy dancer can move a rail which weighs the better fraction of a ton and a team of gandy dancers working in unison can move a rail which is held into the ground by dozens of spikes. Thanks to leverage, a dozen gandy dances using only their combined body weight are able to do what a steaming locomotive doesn't, move the rail. Amazing, but that is the power of leverage.
The pry bar in question is only six inches long and you are going to apply the force of just your hand. This resembles the small pry bars that carpenters use to remove decorative moldings. Moldings are very light and held on typically by a small nail every foot or so; it doesn't take a lot of force to remove one. To remove the nail used to hold drywall to a stud, not a huge nail either, a carpenter will typically reach for a pry bar about eighteen inches long, three times the one in question. And to remove a door frame or something serious like that, they'll bring up a bar that's about three or even four feet long.
I'm just wondering how useful a six-inch pry bar would actually be. Keep in mind that I'm not a SWAT Team member. I don't know what challenges they face in the field. But, I can imagine perhaps prying open a locked door or window. I don't think a six-inch bar would be much good for that.
