Protecting and serving
I’m done with no-knock warrants.
If there’s not a hostage involved, we do it by the numbers, serving a felony warrant. We knock on the door, LOUDLY, and announce, LOUDLY AND CLEARLY, that we are the police. We explain that they have an extremely short time to open the door, or we will open it for them. We make clear that we are the police, serving a lawful order.
Thank you, Matt!
June 10th, 2014 at 2:23 pm
I read Matt’s post the other day, but didn’t make this comment there out of respect for the fact that he’s a good guy with genuinely good intentions.
But as far as I know he doesn’t set policy in the situations he describes. The militarization of LEA’s is top-down and systemic. The older LEO’s that I know hate it, while the younger ones are psych-eval’ed for it and eat it up.
Any real change will also have to be top-down and systemic, and it won’t be easy. The insatiable thirst for budget money demands military tactics and gear and is rewarded by it. Money is seriously addictive in law enforcement as in all other branches of gov.
Money is power and money is money. Always follow the money. And it’s us that control the purse strings. Theoretically.
But good on Matt anyway, even if he is pissin’ into the wind.
June 10th, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Derp. That would be “Money is power and power is money” of course.