20% of Americans have hearing loss, and 3.5% have extreme hearing loss.
I, like most others don’t wear my aids to bed...
If I were a LEO, and I was going to break down a door in the middle of the night, I wouldn’t like those odds...
Besides, the state is the one taking the initiative to break down the door. Why should the onus be on you to guess correctly if those yelling Police! really are or not.
“20% of Americans have hearing loss, and 3.5% have extreme hearing loss.”
Add a flash bang detonating in the room, the purpose of which is to disorient and confuse, and even a person with decent hearing isn’t going to hear or register ANYTHING being said after being suddenly woke up to an intruder.
Not too many years ago in Tucson, Jose Guerena, was shot 22 times after police fired over 70 rounds, and was left to bleed to death in his hallway in a case of mistaken identity no-knock raid. Jose, a Marine who did 2 tours in Iraq, was woke up after a flash bang went off. He first hid his wife and child in a closet and then positioned himself in the hallway with his AR-15. He NEVER fired a shot as the door came down and a fusillade of bullets tore into the house. According to his wife’s testimony, the police never announced who they were.
http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/jose-guerena-settlement/