09-19-2014, 07:07 AM
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[T]wo former Los Angeles Police Department officers, along with 13 others, have plead guilty to running a robbery ring, which used fake no-knock raids as a ruse to catch victims off guard. The defendants would then steal cash and drugs to sell on the street. This tactic led Radley Balko, editor of Reason Magazine, to complain "So not only can you not be sure the people banging down your door at night are the police, not only can you not be sure they?re the police even if they say they?re the police, you can?t even be sure it?s safe to let them in even if they are the police."[4][5 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant
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Knock and Announce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-and-announce
Bottom line: when no loss of life is threatened, a more limited ruling of exigent circumstance, a knock and announce ruling needs to be made by SCOTUS, and to be precedent in constitutional law with regard to 4th Amendment US Constitutional Rights.
If evidence gets destroyed, or the subject of a search warrant escapes -- is that is a greater price to pay than the loss-of-human life (even if they are low-lifes) from a no knock and no announce service of a warrant or any police entrance into a private home with force?
Ask the dead cop if it was worth playing Rambo -- you cannot ... |
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