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Wrong house raided during drug search; police admit mistake
Post Standard Syracuse NY ^ | 3/28/12

Posted on 04/01/2012 5:32:48 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Fred Skinner, 76, of Victory, was caught off-guard on Tuesday when police officers broke through his front door during a drug raid, only to find out they had the wrong house

Skinner said at least six police officers broke into his house, smashed through his porch door, and then his front door. The house at on McNeely Road was raided for drugs for over five minutes before police realized they had the wrong house by looking through his mail. After the police realized it was the wrong house, they took the handcuffs off him and left.

Auburn police officers were involved in the raid conducted by the Finger Lakes Drug Task Force. Auburn Police Chief Gary Giannotta admitted the mistake and told WSYR that he only remembers police raiding a wrong house four times in the last 16 years.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; corruption; deadjackbootswalking; donutwatch; drugs; govtabuse; militarizedpolice; nazistate; paramilitary; policestate; standingarmy; swatabuse; tyranny; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
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1 posted on 04/01/2012 5:32:53 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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Did they shoot his dog too?No Police raid is complete until they shoot the dog.


2 posted on 04/01/2012 5:37:01 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

any dogs shot?


3 posted on 04/01/2012 5:37:01 PM PDT by Principled
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... FOUR times in the last 16 years????!!!!


4 posted on 04/01/2012 5:38:37 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
After the police realized it was the wrong house, they took the handcuffs off him and left.

Well, that was nice of them.

5 posted on 04/01/2012 5:39:05 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Mitt Romney is SEVERELY conservative - and I'm SEVERELY against giving him my vote!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Four times too many. They’re slack a** hacks who need to be replaced so they can find a new line of work to which they are better suited. Garbageman comes to mind as appropriate.

Too many are badly hurt due to this sort of event for “only four times in sixteen years” to be an acceptable answer.


6 posted on 04/01/2012 5:40:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Ken522

he only remembers police raiding a wrong house four times in the last 16 years.


And we trust his memory ?

Stay away from my dog,


7 posted on 04/01/2012 5:40:48 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

maybe this is rocket science...


8 posted on 04/01/2012 5:41:40 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

ka-ching


9 posted on 04/01/2012 5:43:13 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Farmer Dean

Beat me too it.


10 posted on 04/01/2012 5:44:04 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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To: hadaclueonce

Or maybe it’s a case of stupid people with guns trying to do Police work.Could be time for IQ testing of cops.


11 posted on 04/01/2012 5:44:52 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

SWAT Teams should just go to the house next to the address they have. They will have as much chance of hitting the right house.


12 posted on 04/01/2012 5:45:22 PM PDT by Never on my watch (I'd rather light a candle than curse the flatulence.)
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Imagine if surgeons worked like this. They would pick a random hospital visitor and do a bypass or a hysterectomy. What kind of excuse would work?

That’s what you get if you arm a paramilitary group and tell them they are in a war on drugs.


13 posted on 04/01/2012 5:46:37 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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Will the police repair the doors they broke in?


14 posted on 04/01/2012 5:47:51 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (A chameleon belongs in a pet store, not the White House)
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and left him without a door or reimbursement for a new one!!!

maybe they thought he had some fresh doughnuts

15 posted on 04/01/2012 5:52:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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There is a major national effort to end “wrong site surgery” either the wrong side is operated on, or the wrong level (of a spinal surgical procedure) . Hospitals are threatened with losing Medicare payments, etc, etc.

Perhaps we need a national initiative for “wrong address SWAT searches”.

BTW, how hard is it to check an address before you kick the door down?


16 posted on 04/01/2012 5:56:53 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Four times too many. Bet no one lost their job over any of them.


17 posted on 04/01/2012 5:57:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Ole Fred is lucky to still be alive.

If we ever get our freedom back, these home invading goon squads, must be the first to go.


18 posted on 04/01/2012 5:57:59 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Constitutional Conservatism is Americanism.)
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To: Ken522

Closer to 4 times in the last day! Read the news!


19 posted on 04/01/2012 5:58:43 PM PDT by Deagle (nOT)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Or maybe it’s a case of stupid people with guns trying to do Police work.Could be time for IQ testing of cops.”

How much truth can you tolerate?

The dirty fact is that cops are IQ tested. Above a certain point, they are not hired.

Why? The officer is basically a blunt force tool and is supposed to enforce by the book. Too much IQ and they begin to use judgement.

Can’t have a thinking cop, can we?


20 posted on 04/01/2012 6:00:28 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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