Cops raid wrong house

[clayflingythingy]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317398,00.html

I get thoroughly PO'd when I read stories like this.

[Hazcat]

No Knocks should be illegal (actually I think they are via 4th Amendment).

[TAB]

I watched them do the conga line of death in to the wrong house about 4 years ago.   It was just around the corner from me.  It was a duplex, they went in the wrong side.   It was actually very funny, more so since every one on the block knew which door they should have gone in.

[mgobel]

I live in  the MSP area and this happens way too often.  At least they did not kill an elderly couple this time.

Mark

[DDMac]

The lead investigator needs to go to work for the Post Office. Delivery to the wrong house won't get anybody killed. Mac.

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[pioneer]

There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of crap!  These kinds of raids happen way too often.  It comes down to lazy, sloppy police work. 

I can't tell you how many affidavits of search warrants I have written, and not one has ever been lost in court, and I never went to the wrong house.  Never! 

It takes a lot of work to write a search warrant and they are not easy.  They shouldn't be easy.  From what I understand in this case, the information was supplied by a drug informant.  There is no one on the face of the Earth more unreliable than a drug informant.  When you get such information, you verify it.  How?  By sending in an undercover to actually make a purchase, or by surveillance where you can prove that drugs are being dealt.  These cops are just lazy, and can't wait to get dressed up in their ninja costumes and play SWAT commando.   Sometimes there is a valid reason for a no-knock warrant, but they have become routine and abused. 

The home owner did what all of us would do in the same circumstances, and he was well within his rights to do so.  Fortunately no one was killed. 

[gunman1911]

In my years as LEO I've learned that there is now room for erreos o mistates because that is what kills people or senda the wrong ones to prison YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOUR RIGHT. It needs to be verifyed time and agian as for no knoks well sometimes these things need to be if a bad house has a lot of bad people with firearms in them ,are the any kids that can get in the way are the neighbors clear incase of a gun fight, and the lst goes on, THATS WHY YOU NEED TO BE RIGHT!

Pride,Integrity,and Guts---you can't have the last one without the first two.

[45shootr]

Fortunately you were a leo and not an English teacher!

[ismram]

Fortunately you were a leo and not an English teacher!

Fortunately you are a English teacher and not a LEO. I didn't know we were grading posts now!

[tumblebug]

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