Where are the stats on how many wrong houses have been hit/innocent homeowners being shot.You may find this interseting Mr. oneolcop. Hopefully it'll crush your believed shibboleths of this being nothing more than an urban legend.
BTW It's not what you believe, but what you know that counts.It is, after all, what
you believe, not what you know. You
believe it's all BS, an urban legend in your own words, so much that you're
demanding statistical proof, which IMO nobody could possibly supply readily (which may be your real intent).
However, some help may be coming your way...
June 07, 2006 Three MoreAfter eight months of researching this SWAT stuff, I thought I'd scoured every corner of Lexis and Factiva, and found all there is to find in the way of "innocent people killed in botched drug raids."
Nope. I continue to find more. The hidden ones tend to be in places removed from major metropolitan areas, and covered mostly in local newspapers. Which makes me wonder just how many more there may be.Courtesy information source ping agitator if oneolcop has any more questions.
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About Radley Balko (you did write the story)
I'd like to see a map of NOT botched raids, etc. Which map do you think would truly blanket the map?
Look, we know, and we all should care about "botched" raids. For those involved, they are undoubtedly horrible. That doesn't mean throwing out the baby with the bath water though. Balance is the key. In the LAPD there are (at least when I retired) 60 SWAT cops. That's out of an organization of about 7900. What' the percentage of SWAT to "regular" cops (.008%) They are the "gold standard". SWAT lookalikes do exist. They need to be reigned in, but there is, by no means, an epidemic of ninja killings of innocents. That's just a little hyperbolic.