Thanks for the details.
Is it just me, or does it seem that many times these catchy headlines like “No Knock raid” end up being about some skanky people who have broken many laws, and can be a danger to themselves and others——
No, it's you. If you had been paying even the tiniest bit of attention, you would know that there have been quite literally many tens of thousands of SWAT raids (and that figure is probably low) over the last few decades, and that many thousands of those were for the wrong house, wrong perp, wrong reason, or because the LEOs wanted something that the alleged perp had (car, land, money, whatever).
See Radley Balko's book, Overkill, published by the Cato Institute.
It's fun to dress up like a Ninja, bust down somebody's front and back doors, throw in a couple of flash-bangs (which can be deadly), rush in with (real) assault rifles, shoot the dogs, and terrorize the children and old ladies. WHEW! What an adrenaline rush!
And all of this gets done with really cool equipment supplied by the federal government. Plus, if you find any drugs, you get to seize and keep the house, cars, money, and whatever else you covet, and you don't even have to charge anyone with anything. Bypasses all that "beyond a reasonable doubt" bullsh!t.