[CWOJackson]

The implications also tend to be regional as well. For intance, in this area no knock raids are not that frequent and usually confined to residences where the suspect(s) are considered a threat to the officers. The only recent exception to that was a recent child porn case...same as your IRS example, to get to the computer.

An interesting side to this is a raid a few years back where the suspect still pulled a gun and tried to shoot it out with the police. A fatal mistake, he was killed. A local Seattle area reporter did an expo piece claiming that the police had stormed in an executed the suspect; she even had a witness.

Fortunately there had been a couple of reporters doing a ride-along with the officers and who not only knew the truth, they recognized the witness who showed up on the edge of the crowd later asking questions. By the way, that lady reporter was the producer for Dan Rather's forged document hit piece on the President.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The only recent exception to that was a recent child porn case...same as your IRS example, to get to the computer.

But, it's simply not possible to wipe a disk that quick. There is no 1-second panic button.

[R. Scott]

Fortunately there had been a couple of reporters doing a ride-along with the officers and who not only knew the truth, they recognized the witness who showed up on the edge of the crowd later asking questions.

Very fortunate indeed. Our “esteemed” media would have had a field day without them. That is one of the reasons I like the cameras mounted on patrol cars, and I’d like to see SWAT with camera equipped helmets. Not only would it keep the bad cop honest, it would protect the honest cops from unjust criticism.