Land of the fr... oh, who am I kidding?

[Leveth]

Regardless, I still think that the government employee who went to drop off the letter should've walked up to the people who filed the complaints and given them the backhand of JUSTICE!

[Blog]

At least if you spent hours and hours studying up on building code you could maybe anticipate an issue coming up.

This two year old who got flash banged by police looking for a drug dealer seems like a bigger abuse of power.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_sw..._year_old_son/

[Frobozz]

At least if you spent hours and hours studying up on building code you could maybe anticipate an issue coming up.

This two year old who got flash banged by police looking for a drug dealer seems like a bigger abuse of power.

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/24/a_sw..._year_old_son/

It is an incredibly sad story. This is one of the reasons that I have argued that night time search warrants should be illegal/unconstitutional. They put children and families at a higher level of risk because at night, guess what, the kids tend to be in the house and sleeping.

On the other side of this story these cops were not just looking for a "little amount of drugs" they were looking for a major supplier/manufacturer of meth/coke/heroin. That's the part of the story the mother leaves out, she also leaves out that her and her husband knowingly took their children into a home where meth was being cooked. As a father that appalls me. Do people not understand how chemically toxic those houses are? Kids die after being in them for just a couple of weeks.

[Malacasta]

This story is news to me, but I'm not finding much that would suggest the police raided a meth lab.

[Reshad]

I can't find anything about him being a major supplier or it being a meth house. Just that police said they'd bought drugs at the location before from the person they were attempting to arrest (who wasn't there). The only drug related evidence they found at the scene was "drug residue in the home and a smoking device."

Here's the most complete story I could find for it.

In 2006, three members of the same Atlanta SWAT lied about witnessing drugs purchased to get a no-knock warrant. When 3 undercovers busted into the house, the 92 year old woman there opened fire thinking they were intruders and they killed her. (Story.) Three cops ended up in jail over the incident (don't know if they were the three that served the warrant or others).

Going more and more to a military state. Even the police special units are starting to wear uniforms that look more and more like military fatigues.

[Blog]

When you start off with a flash bang grenade you've unnecessarily escalated the conflict by using a weapon. It is 3am or whatever, and a no knock raid with whatever number of armed and armored SWAT police you bring, so the odds are already extraordinarily stacked for a "safe" outcome with no shooting back. A grenade just makes it more likely someone gets injured as happened in the above case.

[Frobozz]

This story is news to me, but I'm not finding much that would suggest the police raided a meth lab.

It was in the affidavit for the search warrant and recorded statements from the mother. Not that I trust anything the police say

[Frobozz]

When you start off with a flash bang grenade you've unnecessarily escalated the conflict by using a weapon. It is 3am or whatever, and a no knock raid with whatever number of armed and armored SWAT police you bring, so the odds are already extraordinarily stacked for a "safe" outcome with no shooting back. A grenade just makes it more likely someone gets injured as happened in the above case.

No real disagreement from me on this. SWAT units are used far too often, and are far too often to just use massive and unnecessary force.