“What ever happened to surrounding a house, and cop on a bullhorn saying “We have you surrounded. Come out with your hands up?”
Sounds like a good model of a hostage situation, that way.
Information likely included presence of woman and child in the home.
And raids like this have been done for...jeez...how many years since King ‘enry o’ Britain??
I think that whatever happened was that TV and movies have changed their preferred lenses!
The idea is to use surprise & overwhelming force to avoid nastiness that can develop when the subjects of a warrant have a little time to cogitate upon whatever evil with which they may be so inclined to respond.
Well the system isn’t working. Too many innocent people are dieing NOT including dogs.
Cops are out of control!
They found a small amount of marijuana (misdemeanor quantity).
I'd say that the woman and child were in far more danger from a bunch of jack-booted thugs in military body armor with automatic weapons firing off rounds at a caged pit bull and a corgi than they were from Dad.
The idea is to use surprise & overwhelming force to avoid nastiness that can develop when the subjects of a warrant have a little time to cogitate upon whatever evil with which they may be so inclined to respond.
Right. The guy who was smoking a little bit of pot is evil and the government thugs breaking down the door to his house, shooting up the place, killing the family dogs, and traumatizing the family are good and virtuous.