OUTRAGE OVER NEW WRONG-DOOR BLUNDER BY POLICE

New York Post ^ | May 23, 2003 | By ERIKA MARTINEZ and ED ROBINSON

[EBUCK]

May 23, 2003 -- Residents of a Bronx building are outraged after getting an unexpected morning "greeting" yesterday from a police drug squad, which burst into their homes, waved guns at children and then left after finding nothing. "At 7:50 a.m., they burst down the door to the building," said Joe Celcis, a teacher whose mother and sister live in the home.

[LittleJoe]

Great income with great benefits and the best retirement going...Who cares about a few dumb ass civilians!

This WOD is directly responsible for the direspect for the law that we see so much of today.

There is one way and one way only to reduce drug abuse, and "force" will not do it.

[Eaker]

87 year old man foolishly resists the rightful entering of his dwelling by members.......

Then it will be in a couple of years for me!!!

Good post though!!!

Eaker

[Ten Megaton Solution]

IMHO, the degree of adversarialism that exists today between law enforcement and American citizens, and the militarization of law enforcemnt agencies, are the lasting and still evolving legacies of both Bill Clinton and Rudy Guiliani.

Ruby Ridge was a Bush game.

The Us v Them attitude has existed since at least the sixties, read The Blue Knight or The Choirboys</> by Joseph Wambaugh.

[FreeRadical]

Sounds like these civilians got off easy; no one got hurt.

Please explain the use of the word civilian here?

[TheDon]

"The cops were looking for two handguns, a pile of marijuana and evidence of a pot-selling operation."

They are risking people's lives for that?

[breakem]

Any many departments don't require name tags when they get all dollwed up for the war. Anonymous, masked, and jackbooted. Good stuff.

[breakem]

That's dolled.

[The KG9 Kid]

Crockett and Tubbs.

[Gritty]

The cops were armed with a warrant that allowed them to search all the units at 3629 Olinville Ave., a four-family apartment building.

How could they get a search warrant for an entire 4-apartment complex? Isn't much more specificity required? Was this supposed to be some kind of a ring with all four apartments involved? This sounds pretty "general" to me. And besides, they got the wrong place!

The cops were looking for two handguns, a pile of marijuana and evidence of a pot-selling operation. They found nothing.

Lemme get this straight. They smashed down the door and took the chance of killing somebody looking for this penny-ante stuff? What, no hostages or rapes in progress, just a few terrified "civilians"?

Whatever happened to the police politely knocking on the door, showing the warrant and doing a search without terrorizing everybody in sight? Did they think a large stash of marajuana and two guns were going to be flushed down the toilet by the time they got from the front door to the bathroom?

They don't need to be sued. They need to go to jail instead!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Ping!!

[Beck_isright]

Some day, they will do this in a 2nd Amendment loving FReepers home at 4 a.m. and we'll have to read the "tragic story" of how a "gun nut" mowed down 4 SWAT members before being killed and Ooops again, it was the wrong address.

[GraniteStateConservative]

[carenot]

is a sarcasm tag really neccessary?

No, if you need the tag, it just means they don't know you.

[carenot]

It pays to keep your nose clean.

I think their nose was clean.

[carenot]

Yes! GO! GO! GO!
It's SHOWTIME!

[Ken H]

How about that. Back-to-back screw ups.

You know any gamblers (reformed or otherwise) who will give me odds on a threepeat?

[carenot]

Heheee!

[EBUCK]

I believe that the No-Knock became the norm in response to "safety concerns" expressed by cops. Some of which I can believe but hey, they're there to protect us and our rights, that's what we pay them for anyway, risk is part of the job.

[EBUCK]

Not only are they risking peoples lives they are careless in their planning when getting ready to risk peoples lives.

New JBT slogan...

"From our armory and thru your door in 30 minutes or less, or your property back!"