Done. And I have read the incident reports for the last 10 years. The exaggerations on this thread are many.
I still believe some no-knock raids are critical in certain situations (specifically long-term hostage and missing person cases).
However, citizens within individual states and communities need to get active and establish that training of SWAT teams and chief LEO’s is effective within their own spheres.
I personally will do what I can in my community to make sure our police know what they are doing and when they can do it.
You stated “I still believe some no-knock raids are critical in certain situations (specifically long-term hostage and missing person cases).”
Few would argue that.Certainly, I could agree with you, on a case by case basis.
But the specific raid(s) discussed on this thread, and the general uneasiness many of us have with no-knock raids in law enforcement operations, IS precisely the point.
Some “options” must never be allowed to become thought of as normal and/or routine operations.
So, I contend we are actually in full agreement. Neither of us think the no-knock raid conducted by LEOs was warranted in this case. And the fact that they screwed it up, makes it even more ...distastefull.