[lndrvr1972]

I have worked in Law Enforcement as a civilian and it is very neccessary tool because when you take away the right to bust down the door you put LEO's in grave danger.
I agree in the past there has been several accidental raids but that should fall back on the investigating officer and the judge or magistrate that allowed the search warrant to begin with.

[fr_freak]

I have worked in Law Enforcement as a civilian and it is very neccessary tool because when you take away the right to bust down the door you put LEO's in grave danger.
I agree in the past there has been several accidental raids but that should fall back on the investigating officer and the judge or magistrate that allowed the search warrant to begin with.

Why is the life of the LEO so much more important than the lives of the people in the house? Kicking down the door in the middle of the night with guns blazing may save LEO lives, but it increases exponentially the likelihood that the occupants will die. Now, the percentage of raids on the wrong house, or on the right house for the wrong reasons may be small, but even if the LEOs are going after the correct people in the correct house, we must all remember that the principle that we are supposed to be living by, that is enshrined in the Constitution, is the concept of innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, regardless of whether the occupants are nice people or not, the police are engaging in tactics which put presumedly innocent people at great risk of death or injury. This is a trampling of the Constitution.

The security of police officers is not the highest ideal to which Americans aspire. We have a higher ideal where citizens are paramount, and government agents serve at their behest. These sorts of police tactics turn that philosophy on its head.

[driftdiver]

Why is it necessary to use these violent tactics for suspects who have not been shown to be violent or for petty crimes. One example was a guy suspected of exceeding his daily limit of fish.

[takenoprisoner]

Busting down the door is the greatest danger of all. Especially if it is my home.