they were looking for a fugitive under exigent circumstances if i am reading the story right. mistakes are more likely, but the risk is usually worth the reward with proper due diligence. guys like this need to be apprehended.
“this was not a search warrant that takes time and effort to plan.”
So you’re saying a no-knock does not need to be planned?
“but the risk is usually worth the reward with proper due diligence. guys like this need to be apprehended.”
Guys like whom? There was no ‘guy’ there. They should be fired for wasting all the overtime involved with keeping 10-20 people there for ‘hours’.
The guy they were after did need to be apprehended. Wonder how far away he got while they were staked out at this empty house.
The reward, of course, being the opportunity to kill peoples’ pets. They were surely disappointed that there was no dog to shoot and they had to settle for gassing a guinea pig.