[eno_]

This also illustrates conventional thinking (or lack of ability to learn). Why do dangerous no-knock raids, which are constitutionally very dubious and should be reserved for the real "Al-Quaida is about to pop a nuke" scenarios, when you can arrest the people working the meth lab outside the house and take down the lab at your leisure. Yes, some labs that might have been taken down will not be, but it isn't as if the Drug Warriors lack targets. Are the results of no-knock raids worth the tragic mistakes?

[Demidog]

no-knocks are strictly PR moves. The police do them in order to get more funding. They are patently unconsitutional but to some, the Supreme court is actually more reliable than the constitution itself. They could care less if a few cops get offed on the way. This is bigger than the cops on the line who are the first to get shafted when the excrement hits the rotating device.