That would make too much sense and would save the taxpayers a few bucks that would lost to the resulting lawsuits.
Posted on 08/20/2011 8:32:26 AM PDT by Immerito
same topic, same source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2766540/posts
Two different, but similar, scenarios.
The homeowners are different as are the addresses.
That would make too much sense and would save the taxpayers a few bucks that would lost to the resulting lawsuits.
So to put this all into prospective...Cedar Rapids is a town of 120k folks...which probably has around 5k citizens who utilize some type of drug illegally...on a weekly basis (my humble figures). The cops in this case got some information from some snitch or associate of this guy...figuring they had a great open-and-shut bust. They bring Sparky the drug-sniffing dog along with them....and end up with nothing.
On the positive side...the SWAT team marks up another episode and will go back to ask the city council to continue their budget cost...even though most folks in town likely question the necessity of a SWAT team.
As for the team itself....they can be happy that they didn’t shoot the family dog, or that someone inside didn’t misinterpret things and shoot half of the SWAT team as they busted down the door. Just another day in America.
LOL...if a “disorderly house” is a criminal offense, I’m going up the river for a long time.
In my opinion, when the cops come up empty in a cluster snafu like this, they should face the same charges I and my buddies would face if we invaded the house. Sort of a loser-pays system but I expect cops would be even more prone to plant evidence.
What? They couldn’t find a cat to stomp to death or a dog to shoot in front of the family? They were probably really hoping to prone out the wheelchair-bound, alzheimer’s grandparent. Animals.
wtf is that?
you can get charged for not picking up your room?
SWAT busts down wrong door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY82seEBw5w
It's in the last line of the article.
Disorderly house is described as a building or room where someone “resorted to for” illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.
“....illegal activity involving drugs, alcohol, gambling or prostitution, according to a city ordinance.”
Clearly not an arrestable offense, since they had a dozen cops there.
So, what were these people doing, sitting around drinking beer and playing poker for money? Or did they find like a joint or something and the cops didn’t want to look like dopes using a SWAT team to make such a minor arrest.
But, they look kind of foolish anyway. I’m glad no one was harmed in this exercise of undue police power.
Now it's routine. There might as well be SWAT Encounters website or reality tv show.
It means if they hadn’t charged them with something they would have to pay to put the door back up/
This way the guy has to fix his own door.
What should happen is the Judge who issued the Warrant should be charged with malfeasance.
“What? They couldn’t find a cat to stomp to death or a dog to shoot in front of the family? “
Progress!!!!
I have seven, I’ll repeat, SEVEN children and I was thinking exactly the same thing.
““resorted to for””
There must be some new rules to the English language because I don’t understand what the hell that means.
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