This is so. And the only way to fix it is to pierce the immunity shield that the judiciary has fabricated from whole cloth.
Cops who obtain warrants on flimsy or fabricated representations need to be personally liable - criminally and civilly.
Cops who execute no-knock warrants at the wrong address need to be personally liable - criminally and civilly.
Judges who issue warrants on flimsy or fabricated representations need to be personally liable - criminally and civilly.
No-knock warrants need to suffer strict scrutiny as to whether alternative means to accomplish the search or arrest could be employed. Again, with personal liability for both the cops and the issiung judge for use of excessive force.
The nascent totalitarian police state needs to be strangled.
Concur
........yes, I think the police some years ago made a wrong decision and went down the wrong road re SWAT implementation. They need to turn around, go back up the road to the fork and take the right road.
The right road I think is you don’t bust in to peoples houses in the middle of the night. The natural “instinct” of anybody, citizen or criminal, is to reach for a gun if you have one. I know I would.
SWAT needs to be employed ONLY in broad daylight where everybody knows what the hell is going on. Now the cops will complain that they lose the advantage of surprise and that that loss will cost lives (theirs). Well, that’s the conundrum for a SWAT team member isn’t it! Each individual SWAT team member will have to make that decision. But, they have proven over recent years that current policy permitting late night or early morning raids is also killing people! And in too many cases it is innocent civilians and children..................and dogs!
I completely agree...and be replaced by the roving crowds of armed, crazy 18 year old thugs who rob stores, beat up clerks, bash in cops’ heads, break down your front door and kill your dog (oops, that is only the cops who kill dogs). But, I like your “handcuff the evil LOE” and make certain that the Muslims are free to traffic children for sex-slavery and visit your neighborhood so you can hold hands and sing Kum-By-Yah. You’re going to love your brave new world.
“And the only way to fix it is to pierce the immunity shield that the judiciary has fabricated from whole cloth.”
That’s not the only way. A more effective deterrent to out-of-control SWAT cops is electing a pro-2nd Amendment, Constitutional sheriff in your county.
I have one in my county. During his tenure, the sheriff has run a number of Rambo cops, including state patrol, out of the county. He sent his investigators out and got two police chiefs in the city fired.
If you want your families and neighborhoods safe from SWAT Nazi goons, elect a constitutional sheriff in your county. If you can’t do that, you deserve every SWAT goon that invades your constitutional rights.