I’ve written about this before. After three deputies put my renter and her abusive boy friend to bed because they were too drunk to stand, they sent in a SWAT team because they’d spotted 48 10’’ pot plants. Twelve men with machine guns and an armored vehicle arrived at 2:00am and smashed in MY DOOR and arrested these people who had no guns and had only a history of drunken fighting with each other. Why didn’t the three deputies make the arrest right then and there? Well, I suspect it was so they could get extra pay and practice. The damage they did was gratuitous and unnecessary.
IMO the state’s governor should be required to sign off on every no-knock raid. That would not deprive the police of their use if there was truly a reason. But you can bet if the governor’s signature was required there really would be a reason. It wouldn’t be for overtime pay and lots of fun on their part.
You’re extraordinarily lucky they didn’t sieze the house as well. Lots of money to be made by all parties involved drug prohibition II on both sides.
your gettin’ close..
a JUDGE HAS to sign off on all these warrants...
the judges are the first in the line of those that need to be reigned in
So, you want to let the governor ignore the State constitution?
Art I, SECTION 12. — Searches and seizures.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and against the unreasonable interception of private communications by any means, shall not be violated. No warrant shall be issued except upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the place or places to be searched, the person or persons, thing or things to be seized, the communication to be intercepted, and the nature of evidence to be obtained. This right shall be construed in conformity with the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court. Articles or information obtained in violation of this right shall not be admissible in evidence if such articles or information would be inadmissible under decisions of the United States Supreme Court construing the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“After three deputies put my renter and her abusive boy friend to bed because they were too drunk to stand, they sent in a SWAT team because they’d spotted 48 10’’ pot plants. Twelve men with machine guns and an armored vehicle arrived at 2:00am and smashed in MY DOOR and arrested these people who had no guns and had only a history of drunken fighting with each other. Why didn’t the three deputies make the arrest right then and there? Well, I suspect it was so they could get extra pay and practice.”
You’re right; it is a shame what happened to this child, but the real damage is done to the taxpayers who are expected to fund th e law enforcement industry that has no interest in winning the war anyway (Would they then go get real jobs like everyone else?). It is a cash cow for workfare gibsmedats to retire at 45 with nice packages...
In Mo. they passed a law that all the "asset forfeiture" money from drug busts would go to the school system. The feds worked out a system where the local police would call them first and they'd provide federal paperwork for the bust. Then they'd take over the asset forfeiture and kick part of it back to the local police as a "grant", and the school system got nothing.
They are abusing people for reasons other than drugs too. The Police are becoming militarized, and it is an ominous trend.