Posted on 03/23/2006 10:59:34 AM PST by seacapn
HORN LAKE, Miss. — An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory.
The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address but the wrong house.
Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team stormed the house.
"We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by a purchase of narcotics linked to the address. However, when we arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit the larger of the two houses.
"It was the wrong house," Beshears said. "The house was totally dark and the TACT members went through to the bedroom looking for the suspects."
A man and a woman — both in their 80s — were injured as TACT team members secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.
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The usual procedure is kill them all and let God sort them out.
Guys on teh entry team are not actively involved in the investigation, they are called to perform the raid only.
Training to perform entries involves learning how to make it through a house ( any soze and floorplan ) and secure all persons inside in the quickest amount of time for two reasons. One, every one's safety and two, the preservation of evidence.
I too have "secured" persons in the dark ( some raids are perform in the night and you do not turn on the lights as you run through the house ) that after the fact I realize I was a bit to rough on, but that is the nature of the job. The first time you relax and slow down is the time someone sees you coming and fires shots through the door at you, hits you with a baseball bat, takes a hostage, or jumps out a window.
These are happening WAY too often. It's a once a week thing, now, perhaps because of the Net and the explosion in information access, but JBTs had better realize that the old method of Shoot, Shovel and Shut up, with the local paper going along to get along, ain't cutting it anymore.
Police departments have too much power to have any expectation of forgiveness for "human error."
I see the FR search engine is still a joke.
Won't do any good to sue them. If the people win, the politicians will only raise their taxes to pay the award[plus a little for their own pockets].
Mississippi ping
You get off on this sort of crap or you wouldn't be doing it, and what's with implying that those who object to brutality or simple ignorance substituting for professionalism are somehow cowards?
Oooh, I have an idea! How about we get rid of small town SWAT teams and stop doing dynamic entries. Arrest ppl when they are out in town and when they can be clearly identified.
You guys live in a fantasy world. I was on a SWAT team and can speak about this procedure from an experts point of view. This is how it works in laymans terms. Officer gets a search warrant base on his testimony to a judge. He calls us and says I have a warrant to hit a house. He gives us description and address. We drive by and do a look over and plan raid. If address and description match what is written in the warrant we saddle up and execute warrant. Once scene is secure we leave.
Bottom line, officer who gets the warrant and gives the info to the SWAT team is at fault and retains culpability for the veracity of the info. SWAT goes where it is asked and has the lawful instrument supporting that position. Research the actual procedure involved before condemning all who are on scene.
Why are SWAT teams crashing into peoples homes?
16 posted on 03/23/2006 11:12:26 AM PST by 300magnum
Because they can. Secure in the knowledge that nothing will be done about.
At one time in the past there were lawabiding people and the police on one side and the criminal element on the other side.
Now it is only the police against everyone else. The lawople have been lumped in with the criminal element.
"I too have "secured" persons in the dark ( some raids are perform in the night and you do not turn on the lights as you run through the house ) that after the fact I realize I was a bit to rough on, but that is the nature of the job. The first time you relax and slow down is the time someone sees you coming and fires shots through the door at you, hits you with a baseball bat, takes a hostage, or jumps out a window."
Must be rough to have to work under that sort of paranoiac anxiety.
"Those criminals need to be arrested and charged with multiple felonies."
You must be referring to the "criminal" cops who break into to peoples homes with the HOPE of finding something. What would happen if the home owner shot one of the cops?
Yep.
Common sense never got the jackboots bigger budgets, shooting pets and roughing old people works great though.
Wouldn't change much, they're cloning them now.
I really hate this stuff. I hate the ninja-geared dynamic-entry small-town SWAT bulls--t. Way too often, the cops would rather 'get some' in a midnight no knock dynamic entry raid than do boring, methodical police work. Barf!
Also raises another question. If the police break down a door in a wrongfull raid and an officer is shot and killed by the occupant but the homeowner isn't, would it be possible that homeowner be vindicated?
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