re: another no-knock warrant gone bad

I was posting generally about drug dealers and the concept of no-knock warrants. This case indeed seems odd and morej

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He was also until a few months prior a Lt. on the police force.


Well there's your answer as to why

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Yep, everyone wondered why he was allowed to sit there and take pot shots at responding officers for an hour.

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So yea, if you gonna go kick in a door, make sure it's right place, right person, and that the person is known to be violent and a true menace to society

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How about catch him on the street? Why is it that cops feel the need to wait until someone is at home so they can kick in their door?

If there is an emergency situation where someone is being harmed, or at risk of being harmed, then by all means kick in the door. But if is simply because the guy has some plants or drugs that are against the law, what is the rush?

this is like an episode of Trailer Park Boys gone wrong. fricking Jim Lahey, drunk bastard.

Good cop = dead cop

Police chiefs and sheriffs may want to ask themselves—if after hiring officers in the spirit of adventure, who have been exposed to action oriented police dramas since their youth, and sending them to an academy patterned after a military boot camp, then dressing them in black battle dress uniforms and turning them loose in a subculture steeped in an ‘us versus them’ outlook toward those they serve and protect, while prosecuting the war on crime, war on drugs, and now a war on terrorism—is there any realistic hope of institutionalizing community policing as an operational philosophy?

Scorecard

I assume this isn't current as there were OVER 70,000 no-knock raids in 2013 !!!

70-80,000 raids

Next time I rob someone I'll just yell "Police!" so they don't shoot at me