“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Posted on 02/02/2021 7:31:25 PM PST by RandFan
One of the most positive developments from last year's political strife was a stronger focus on police abuses and no-knock raids. Some states and cities have imposed new restrictions, others are working toward greater transparency when it comes to police shootings. Unfortunately, Maryland, a state that has wrestled with some of the most egregious SWAT and no-knock cases in the country, remains mired in controversy.
The state has a long record of SWAT debacles. After police wrongfully raided a mayor’s house and killed his dogs in 2008, Maryland required police to report every SWAT raid. Between 2010 and 2014, police in Maryland conducted more than 8,000 raids, killing nine people and injuring almost a hundred civilians.
Despite controversies, statistics were no longer collected after 2014. Strong police unions have blocked numerous efforts at legislative reform. As a result, Marylanders continue to be vexed by the same kind of deadly no-knock debacles that killed Breonna Taylor last March in Louisville, Kentucky.
Duncan Lemp is one of Maryland's latest victims.
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I support Rand Paul's legislation to ban no-knock raids!
That is What I got from the link.
Not surprisingly, this does not happen in Maryland’s red counties.
I agree.
If you ban them all, if something like a “real” terrorist
situation comes along, they’ll be able to do it anyway via
enhanced rules for such situations under Homeland Security.
For the rank and file BS they do where innocent people’s
homes are raided, forget it.
One of my employer’s sons was out front of his home one
afternoon and a mass of police cars came flying up the
street to his place of residence. He as cuffed and
treated quite roughly while his family wondered what the
hell was going on.
Wrong location.
Too many bad things happen in these situation that far
outweigh the ordinal suspect threat.
But if SWAT is on the case then they can surround the place before they knock. And they can get a damned plumber if they think there's evidence worth getting down a drain or toilet.
None of that justifies no-knock raids which endanger lives.
Some might say that the element of surprise might save a life of someone inside who might be in danger from a perp, however I can't see that this will happen very often if at all. If the perp knows he's surrounded by SWAT why would he commit another crime by killing, harming, or taking another occupant hostage when he knows he's had?
The police have never explained why they raided him except to say he was a member of “anti-government” organizations and possessed firearms.
Not good enough.
In our surveillance society, even if the target got away, he wouldn’t get very far. It’s not like someone can go West or cross the border and start a new life.
These no knock raids put everyone at risk, Now it looks like we’ll also face very inconsistent and unconstitutional laws, 1st and 2nd amendment, a lot of people just won’t comply and anything can happen.
This story is Monty Co. big surprise.
Yeah, oops.
Too late!
ping
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Lemp’s family should be filing a civil rights case against Montgomery County.
Wrongful death.
Breonna Taylor was not a no knock. LEFTISTs cant help themselves. They have to lie.
“SAY HIS NAME...
I support Rand Paul’s legislation to ban no-knock raids! ‘
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Damned straight!
I may be wrong but,
Isn’t this exactly what Democrats are calling for?
Getting rid of right wing group members????
Only after it happened to one of them.
Goes to show they don’t give a rip about the people who elected them or they would have taken that action the first time it happened to ANYONE.
He must have been white, because if he was black it would be nonstop coverage.
Support the 2nd Amendment and complain about the police, get shot dead.
Sieg Heil!
I am glad that more people are realizing SWAT/no knock raids/use of militarized police should be exceptional events only used in rare and unique cases. They should never be part of ‘regular policing.’ This doesn’t matter if someone is a BLM member, a part of the KKK, or the chapter head of the local knitting club. No knock raids should still not be part of regular policing.
Now, there will be cases where SWAT and no knock raids will be required. For example, an armed group massing up inside a building, a hostage event, a situation that is rapidly going off the rails and it is clear armed violence is imminent.
But outside such cases there is no need to send a squad of militarized police to a residence. There are many cases that only require a Barney Fife to resolve, and sending over Mayberry’s version of FBI HRT only risks making a situation much worse.
Save Delta/DEVGRU for situations that really require those special skills, and even then serious planning needs to be undertaken to avoid a Waco.
Anyway - glad people are realizing no knock raids may have been taken too far. They should not be standard police procedure.
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