Like most things along the slippery slope, no-knock warrants have their place, but that place should be exceedingly infrequent and with a tremendous amount of evidence of their necessity.
To ban them altogether will endanger police officers in those cases where they are warranted.
Agreed.
Exactly the point.
Nope: Have to disagree here. No knock warrants have their place in totalitarian police states but have absolutely no, none, not any place whatsoever is a free society. The results speak for themselves.
Supporters say they just need to be limited and with ample evidence and such. Well folks we have that already and look what the police have done with this power. This should have been stopped and shut down permanently the very first time it was tried. There is no situation where we as a fee society can ever allow government the power to kick down the doors of citizens homes no matter what the suspected crime or evidence of such. The second you allow this, innocent people start dying and people live in fear of the police state. There are many good police officers but people need to realize police officers are as honest as anyone else in our society but not more so. If you understand this basic fact you understand that no government entity can ever be given the power to kick in the door of your home and start shooting.