This is more good news and if these out of control police raids continue more of them deserve to be shot.
The sheriff raided a home I rented to a frail elderly couple. They used all their SWAT gear, an armored car and smashed in the door. This couple had no guns and there was zero reason to believe they’d be dangerous. They had 48 pot plants maybe eighteen inches tall. The only reason I can think they used this approach was to give the SWAT guys overtime pay and maybe some training-wheel experience. The government does not pay for damage, which was pricy and unnecessary.
I am of the opinion that these raids should be signed off on by the governor. You’d quickly see them go down to the number where they were actually required. I think they’d be required if there was a hostage situation, where evidence might be destroyed, or, some situation where they were deemed the only safe alternative.
The vast majority of arrests can be made while the subject is at work, at a gas station or a grocery store parking lot. The fact that Congress gifted all that military equipment to sheriff’s offices is because it’s a jobs program for those equipment manufacturers. Not because after two hundred years of arrests they suddenly are dealing with foreign armies in our neighborhoods. And, if there were such armies, those lightly armored vehicles would be useless against an RPG7.
I’m beginning to hate our modern, militarized police. That, and the fact they are monetizing the law to fund themselves. If the community needed the level of cost this funding carries, it should pay it in taxes. You’d quickly see how much policing we REALLY needed.