This is how they come to be issued.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/chief0227.htm
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Judges rubber-stamp no-knock raids
- Thread starter bruels
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This story is the latest of a series of articles dating back to September when Ismael Mena was shot to death during a botched drug raid. SWAT hit the wrong house because the officer who drafted up the affidavit and application for the search warrant relied on his snitch to give him the correct address. The snitch screwed up, the officer didn't go look at the house, and Mena died.
The officer who started the sequence of events flowing was recently charged with felony perjury for lying on the affidavit. The chief of police was sacked and his excuse was the Community Oriented Policing program, heavily funded and backed by the federal government, put his inexperienced officers in situations where they are over their head. The chief essentially said he has no control over his department because of the feds. Interesting, but no one in the media has picked up on that one.
The officer who started the sequence of events flowing was recently charged with felony perjury for lying on the affidavit. The chief of police was sacked and his excuse was the Community Oriented Policing program, heavily funded and backed by the federal government, put his inexperienced officers in situations where they are over their head. The chief essentially said he has no control over his department because of the feds. Interesting, but no one in the media has picked up on that one.
Jeff Thomas
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Well, I don't know the facts, and I certainly take newspaper stories with a few grains of salt these days. But, to be frank, this seems pretty logical to me.
Folks, think about it. Government has a tendency to screw up, and they have an even greater tendency to gather excessive power. To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, giving no-knock search warrant power to judges is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ... expect trouble.
Regards from AZ
Folks, think about it. Government has a tendency to screw up, and they have an even greater tendency to gather excessive power. To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, giving no-knock search warrant power to judges is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ... expect trouble.
Regards from AZ