Gwinnydapooh
Retired Screen Name
Lawdog, I know all about being given an impossible job to do and then told what you're doing is wrong--I'm becoming an elementary school teacher.
The best suggestion I have is not something that you or your fellow officers can do. My suggestion is that since we know that a no-knock is basically deciding that you don't mind if the subject has to be killed, it should be limited to suspects in violent crimes only. You would have to have at least threatened life or limb to qualify for a no-knock, no more of this war on drugs crap. Part of my point here is, even if this guy wasn't innocent, the charge was selling drugs to an informant, right? Well, we've got a liquor store down the street and nobody has ever suggested the cops go in guns blazing!
As for steps you personally can take, like I said, I'm not a cop. Sorry, I just don't know.
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Don
"Its not criminals that go into schools and shoot children"
--Ann Pearston, British Gun Control apologist and moron
The best suggestion I have is not something that you or your fellow officers can do. My suggestion is that since we know that a no-knock is basically deciding that you don't mind if the subject has to be killed, it should be limited to suspects in violent crimes only. You would have to have at least threatened life or limb to qualify for a no-knock, no more of this war on drugs crap. Part of my point here is, even if this guy wasn't innocent, the charge was selling drugs to an informant, right? Well, we've got a liquor store down the street and nobody has ever suggested the cops go in guns blazing!
As for steps you personally can take, like I said, I'm not a cop. Sorry, I just don't know.
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Don
"Its not criminals that go into schools and shoot children"
--Ann Pearston, British Gun Control apologist and moron