“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.
this situation was not a search warrant. it was an emergency situation and there was no prior planning. they thought the guy was in there.
a search warrant (knock or no-knock) is usually the result of an ongoing investigation and can takes weeks to plan.