[Dead Corpse]

Because some of us have a different definition of a "crime". One where there is an actual VICTIM. If you are only hurting yourself, why are we bothering to prosecute you? We should get out of your way and let you destroy your own life. Until you hurt someone else, BFD...

I don't like no-knock raids. Especially with law enforcements occassional "wrong address" type mistakes that end up getting otherwise good cops, and innocent civilians, killed. If they are worried about evidence getting flushed, then they should apprehend their target OUTSIDE the place they want to search. Doesn't seem to hard to me...

[A CA Guy]

Hi Dead,

I don't think that law enforcement intends mistakes while going out to bust bad guys.
The few times I've read about the mistaken address situation, it was always a good faith effort by law enforcement and there would be a lapse by the person who was supposed to verify the address, or the address was unreadable on the building.

I don't think it makes enforcement's day to be in the wrong residence.

So far the remedy I've seen has been retraining and maybe firing the employee who was to double verify information.

In some cases where there are suspected weapons inside, so I like no knock raids. Why advertise you are outside the door so they can grab their machine guns and armor piercing bullets to fire at you? Why give an edge to bad guys?