Posted on 04/01/2012 5:32:48 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Fred Skinner, 76, of Victory, was caught off-guard on Tuesday when police officers broke through his front door during a drug raid, only to find out they had the wrong house
Skinner said at least six police officers broke into his house, smashed through his porch door, and then his front door. The house at on McNeely Road was raided for drugs for over five minutes before police realized they had the wrong house by looking through his mail. After the police realized it was the wrong house, they took the handcuffs off him and left.
Auburn police officers were involved in the raid conducted by the Finger Lakes Drug Task Force. Auburn Police Chief Gary Giannotta admitted the mistake and told WSYR that he only remembers police raiding a wrong house four times in the last 16 years.
That part of your headline was an April Fools joke, right?
They do have their rare place--in genuine hostage situations, and that's about it.
Not over a bag of weeds or somesuch.
How long would a bank teller keep his job if he deposited $1,000,000 into the wrong account. Would he be permitted four “foul up”s of that magnitiude in sixteen years?
THAT makes it worth putting a bunch of people in danger? As a last resort, why can’t they just test for drug residue in the commode? Besides, if you’ve got a lot in your ‘stash’ won’t it take awhile to get rid of it?
And won't the memory of having had to flush your big stash be sufficient deterrent against future drug possession? No-knock drug raids make no sense however you slice it.
If that is the reason for those types of raids, we definitely need address our priorities – is that a good enough justification for putting a number of people in danger?
It’s really just a flimsy excuse for a major governmental overreach at the expense of individual freedom.
If the old man had been injured or worse, you can bet the cops would have “found” some drugs.
>Can’t have a thinking cop, can we?
Of course not; but not for the reasons you think.
If they were to “read the book” then they would begin to see just how much the “ruling class” violates what’s in the book. That is to say, that if any sizable & concentrated collection of Law Enforcement types were to enforce the law [uniformly] the “ruling class” would be jailed.
An interesting example is US Code, Title 18, Chapter 13, Sec 242 — Deprivation of rights under color of law ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242 ) if enforced would require the arrest of Law Enforcement officers enforcing the War on Drugs (blatantly unconstitutional, esp as prohibition required an Amendment)... but even more interesting, sec 241 would require the arrest of the legislatures, judges, prosecutors, and jailers involved in the War on Drugs. (Conspiracy against rights.)
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