Can you honestly say you have never made a mistake on the job?
These drug raids happen every day all across the world. Occasionally, very occasionally, they are going to get the wrong house.
A single incident is not indicative of an epidemic of error.
It’s far from a “single incident”. I suspect as long as it happening to somebody else, it’s ok with you.
With this phone baloney "argument" I'm trying to decide if you're just naive or dishonest. My mistakes do not have the potential to kill anyone. My mistakes don't terrorize anyone. My mistakes don't break down the doors of my neighbors. How would you feel if you were the recipient of their "mistake?" (provided of course that the didn't kill you in an "honest mistake"_
>>A single incident is not indicative of an epidemic of error.
No, it’s not. And either you haven’t been paying attention, or you are being disingenuous.
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
“Can you honestly say you have never made a mistake on the job?”
Yes. I can honestly say that I have never accidently held an innocent man at gunpoint after breaking down the front door to his home.
Not even once.
You’re incredibly naive.
There were fifteen bloody people there! It wasn't the mistake of a single individual. There are address numbers on houses, mailboxes, curbs, etc. Did any one of this dozen-plus group think to check addresses against the warrant?
You are wrong there is an epidemic of this problem. It is so bad that Los Angeles PD has a carpenter on the payroll to fix the wrong doors they kick down. Not to long ago in the midwest cops broke down the wrong door and some very old lady shot several of them.
If it were just a single incident, i'd be right with you, but I read about this type of incident just about every week.
Unfortunately, it happens more than occasionally. No one compiles records of these “mistakes”, but if they did you would find that it is an “epidemic of horror” I believe that is why they don’t keep track of their mistakes. I believe that when they make a mistake like this, the police should be charged with a crime because that is what it is, a crime, plain and simple. It might actually get them to stop making these mistakes if they knew they would suffer repercussions. Right now, nothing happens to these criminals so they just keep doing it.
I would suppose it would depend on which end of the gun barrel you were viewing the “single error” from...
If during one of the occasional, very occasional, time they get the wrong house it happened to be yours I think you would have a serious attitude change towards this issue.
If I aim my handgun at you WITHOUT due cause I go to jail but when someone who supposedly has had many hours of training makes the same occasional, very occasional mistake they are automatically forgiven. Not by me they wouldn’t be.