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Originally Posted by Rochard
Because his attorney will argue he was no at home and had no knowledge of any illegal wrong doing found in his house when he wasn't there. It might be a long shot, but it forms the bases of doubt.
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They don't care about that. You have the shit in your house and you will be charged. My neighbor down the road got raided for pot and his 70+ year old mother (who lives with him) was also charged. In fact everyone in the house was charged.
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They most likely did so some surveillance.
I'm not sure about you, but I don't want my local PD blowing through $40k of overtime in a single week just to they can have five officers at at time watching the house 24/7 for a week.
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Way to exaggerate. Have one guy sitting outside. When he leaves the house radio it in and have them come bust in and do the search. Have one other officer follow him so they know where he is while the house is being searched. Or... they could just bust through the window and get shot all to fuck. I'm not trying to teach cops how to run investigations, I'm just saying there is a better way to do it than busting through windows like the Expendables. You certainly don't need a team of 5 and a week of surveillance to know whether the guy has left his house or not.
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No matter what, no matter how long they watch the house, if they have reason to suspect firearms in the house they are going to go in hot and heavy. It's standard practice for law enforcement.
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No one is arguing any different and saying they shouldn't. The issue here is them busting through a window which clearly made it look like a home invasion.
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The search warrant was for the house, not the car.
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What are you talking about? They execute the search warrant on the house and look for evidence there. Once they determine he needs to be arrested then they'll arrest him wherever they choose. You don't need a search warrant to arrest a wanted man in a car!???
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You are saying a "regular traffic stop" would have done the trick, but that is not the case at all. Police most likely knew he was armed, and forcing a full felony stop in public with guns drawn on a suspect they already know is armed should be a last resort in the interests of public safety. I don't want gun battles on my street. Hit 'em fast and catch them off guard.
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He probably had the gun by his bedside for protection, like many people do. You are acting like this guy was a crazed gunman looking to off cops if they looked at him sideways. If they blocked the guy in somewhere with multiple guns pointed at his head do you think he is going to get into a gun battle when he knows he'll be killed? Again, the issue here is he obviously thought he was the victim of a home invasion.
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In fact, it is working out great. How many warrants are served a year nationwide, and how many incidents do we have? I have no clue - how many warrants are served a year? Ten thousand? One hundred thousand? Then compare how many issues we've had - I can only think of two in the past year, this one and the baby
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Tell that to the cop who got shot in the face and the innocent guy who might be executed by the state for simply defending his home. And I have no idea why you think I have an issue with cops serving search warrants. It's with cops busting through windows and creating what appears to be a home invasion scenario.