Posted on 05/10/2023 12:56:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A ban on almost all no-knock warrants is inching towards the Governor Tim Walz's desk with a push from the family of a man killed during the service of one.
Legislators got deep into details Tuesday with law enforcement veterans hoping to fine tune the ban on no-knock warrants.
But they also heard the emotional side of the story from Amir Locke’s father. Minneapolis police were not looking for Amir Locke when they served a no-knock warrant at the home where he was sleeping in February 2022.
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The American drug cartels are taking over.
No Knock warrants are just fine, they just need to get better at them, And EVERY Judge in America should be the recipient of a No Knock Raid every month, so they could practice
Texas is going this route. FREEPERS seem happy with it. If police weren’t so screwed up by going to wrong home or shooting wrong person, this may not be needed.
The 4th
Double and triple verify the name and address. Then verify again.
No-knock raids should be illegal everywhere, period.
I’ve seen too many stories of cops going to the wrong house, or having bad info, and innocents getting hurt.
At minimum there should be enough consequences for a bad raid that cops will triple-check their info.
No-knock warrants make sense when the bad guy is holding hostages, and has threatened to kill those hostages. Or maybe he’s in the process of making a bomb.
I struggle to think of any other scenario.
Perhaps the bad guy has a warrant, and is also cooking meth. Grab him when he goes out for groceries. Then search his home. But I guess that would limit the use of SWAT, and all the associated paramilitary stuff. So never mind.
God forbid there’s a miscreant living in one of those apartments, and a raid is prepared to apprehend him. Just my luck, the visit would be paid to my house. There is no new IMO for these raids in the middle of the night .
They started becoming more common as police had a difficult time prosecuting illegal gambling.
They really took off with the war on some drugs.
Many police love them because of the control and power trips they are on. I have known people who volunteered for SWAT teams because they loved the excitement. Probably the adrenaline rush.
As the Houston case illustrated, they are wonderful tools for police officers to use to abuse their power.
Anyone barging through my door without knocking needs to die unless they are a fireman and the place is obviously on fire.
The marginal chances of evidence being destroyed are *not* worth the deaths to innocents - and potentially to cops.
*ONLY* if there is a 100% certainty that there is actually a hostage being held.
What is funny is that this is something almost everyone on both the left and right agree on; only the copsuckers and jackboot lickers ever have any reason beyond a hostage situation.
Recently an innocent (white) homeowner was killed by police going to the wrong address when the homeowner responded to a late night knock with a gun. The fascist police union issued a statement fully blaming the homeowner, with phrases like “He chose to point a gun at police” etc. He didn't choose to “point a gun a police,” he chose to protect his home from an unknown threat.
This type of incendiary and disingenuous language makes the police out to be reckless thugs, who take no responsibility for stupid, ignorant and incompetent actions. The idiots writing the press releases at the unions are doing their clients no favors, and, instead, only showing their true colors as supporters of reckless violent brutes who use the color of law to kill without remorse, apology or the capability of introspection.
Hear! Hear!
SWAT is the big tool in the police kit. It is the easiest to reach and every address now is a nail. No-Knock for political purposes is going to be a big thing in a year or two. Innocent people not having any notion that the police could be crashing through their door are more and more likely to respond to an attack with a gun and then the police have license to kill anyone and everyone in the house.
That’s true. I guess they’ll need to pressurize sewer lines before drug raids then. With toilets like geysers, they won’t be able to flush the drugs. ;)
Are you a Stasi officer?
You do realize thete were illegal,bad things in America when our Constitution was written? Mankind has been foolishly swallowing harmful substances (and even more harmful ideas) for a very long time.
The Founders valued freedom and rejected a police state.
<Double and triple verify the name and address<
But only if you’re a Republican of any color.
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