[A CA Guy]

Hi Dead,

I don't think that law enforcement intends mistakes while going out to bust bad guys.
The few times I've read about the mistaken address situation, it was always a good faith effort by law enforcement and there would be a lapse by the person who was supposed to verify the address, or the address was unreadable on the building.

I don't think it makes enforcement's day to be in the wrong residence.

So far the remedy I've seen has been retraining and maybe firing the employee who was to double verify information.

In some cases where there are suspected weapons inside, so I like no knock raids. Why advertise you are outside the door so they can grab their machine guns and armor piercing bullets to fire at you? Why give an edge to bad guys?

[Dead Corpse]

If it could end up with a cop or an innocent home owner dead? It better be a bit more than a "good faith effort".

Think about it... Waco was technically a raid that DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN. They could have nabbed any number of the Davidians on their trips into town.

Then there are the monthly list of drug raids gone bad. Wrong addresses. No drugs found at the Right address. Ect...

Why not just grab 'em when they aren't at home? Get 'em on the street where they can't hole up, aren't near their weapons cache, and can be SEEN fro mall sides? Makes a hell of a lot more sense than an o-dark-thirty raid on a closed box.

Note: I'm not arguing Constitutionality or the rightness of the SCOTUS decision. I just think the whole "no-knock" proceedure itself is lazy fricken police work that has a LOT to recommend against it.

[supercat]

In some cases where there are suspected weapons inside, so I like no knock raids. Why advertise you are outside the door so they can grab their machine guns and armor piercing bullets to fire at you? Why give an edge to bad guys?

So police should use no-knock raids against anyone suspected of owning firearms? So much for the Second Amendment.