No-knock warrants are illegal in NH.
There was an incident in the early 90s when a man was killed in front of his wife and kids in the wee hours during a no knock raid for Marijuana in Nashua. The man was reaching for his glasses, and the pumped-up cops thought he was reaching for a weapon. They shot him to death in his bed with his wife right next to him.
Just a couple years back, a town constable was killed trying to serve a warrant. The man inside the house just shot him through the door with a rifle.
Works both ways, I guess.
The ONLY reason they didn't come thru my front door with battering rams and those hammers that look like Thor's is because my wife and I were outside at the time. The police told us that 'it couldn't have gone any better for us because they didn't have to break the doors down'. We never even SAW a warrant until I picked it up at the station a week later. They had every intention of conducting a 'no knock warrant' right here in Red Hampshire...
My wife and I won't see another good night's sleep until I get the hell out of Red Hampshire.
They certainly didn't knock...they marched right by us and into the house...the only thing I said to them was 'Please don't kill my cats.'
The most recent NH Law Enforcement Manual clearly shows provisions for no knock warrants.