Comments on: No Knock Raid On Wrong House Goes Wrong

By: Firehand

Firehand — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:30:51 +0000

And if this follows the usual pattern, we’ll read that “The officers were following standard procedure, so no action will be taken against them.”

God, I’m sick of this.

By: straightarrow

straightarrow — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:38:44 +0000

The only way to stop this and something I have been trying to popularize is a new law. Yep, that�s right. One more law. Only this time it works in our favor.

When any officer is killed or injured in a �no-knock� raid, right address or not, it is to be considered just a cost of doing business with no liability either criminal or civil accruing to the citizen. If, the raid is conducted against the wrong address criminal and civil penalties accrue against the individuals officers and their supervisors involved and the agencies for which they work.

Anybody want to bet on whether much more judgment would then be used before resorting to this, the last of all options?

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:59:57 +0000

�Police hit rates on shootings as low as 17.4 percent�
“After reading that article I�m convinced that if you�re in the vicinity of a police shooting you�re safest if you�re the target.”

LOL!!

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:35:07 +0000

guy Says:

December 18th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
The best quote is always left out:

�It�s unfortunate because we have officers that were hit by gunfire and this truly, truly could have been a much worse situation.�

Unfortunate that an officer got hit, no mention of how unfortunate shooting up an innocent man�s home and terrorizing his family was.”

I noticed that too. The cops didnt seem to be concerned AT ALL about the trauma they put that family through. They’re just interested in covering their asses, as usual.

“Garcia said after the informant gave police three addresses they did their homework”

Did they? It sure dont look that way to me. Had the cops done “their homework” they would’nt have hit the wrong house now would they?

“Police hit rates on shootings as low as 17.4 percent”

After reading that article I’m convinced that if you’re in the vicinity of a police shooting you’re safest if you’re the target.

By: guy

guy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:51:01 +0000

The best quote is always left out:

“It’s unfortunate because we have officers that were hit by gunfire and this truly, truly could have been a much worse situation.”

Unfortunate that an officer got hit, no mention of how unfortunate shooting up an innocent man’s home and terrorizing his family was.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:45:05 +0000

“Any moron can buy a fake badge and a uniform and yell �police� while doing so. I�m surprised non-government home invaders don�t do that.”

Actually, they do. I’ve lost count of the number of news reports I’ve read over the years of thugs doing exactly that. Granted, one group was at least a little creative and yelled “FBI” instead one time, just to change things up.

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:12:26 +0000

�This was the end of a chain of things, and there was no reason to question the credibility of the information.�

In my best Harvey Keitel voice…”How about now???”

By: mike w.

mike w. — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:44:37 +0000

It’s amazing that government officials can break down your door in the middle of the night, be surprised when they get shot at and then claim “he/she should have known we were police.

Any moron can buy a fake badge and a uniform and yell “police” while doing so. I’m surprised non-government home invaders don’t do that.

By: CTD

CTD — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:08:08 +0000

The poor homeowner is VERY lucky the cops were not killed. If they had been, you could bet that this terrified, completely innocent citizen would now be looking at a capital murder charge.

All because some idiot keystoners couldn’t be bothered to do any actual police work. Much more fun to go busting down doors and terrorizing people.

By: Jim W

Jim W — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:55:26 +0000

It came from the informants, not the police? What? Aren’t the informants working for the police? I could understand suing the informants if they had kicked in the wrong door, but that isn’t what happened, is it?

At least no one got hurt. I hope this gets settled amicably.