OUTRAGE OVER NEW WRONG-DOOR BLUNDER BY POLICE

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

[EBUCK]

OOOps, sorry wrong house.

What's next, Search warrants for entire city Blocks?

"You see Judge, we think that there is some drug dealin going on in Atlanta, can we have a search warrant for the entire city please?"

"Help me get elected next time around and sure, that or 50% of the loot I guess"

[The KG9 Kid]

"Sorry, we thought you were someone else."

Copyright,© 1988-2003 War on Drugs, inc. All rights reserved.

[EBUCK]

Wanna ping this for me?

[EBUCK]

What did they use before '88?

[Lucas1]

Quote " put a gun in the face of 12-year-old Jennifer Espady"

Pathetic

[EBUCK]

Pathetic that it was pointed out or that it happened?

(my kid would probably know more about the "gun" than the cop anyway)

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[EBUCK]

thx bub

[jmc813]

ping

[Forseti]

Is Janet Reno working for the NYPD now?

[Sub-Driver]

this is breaking news?

[Yeti]

and noted that two simultaneous raids in the same neighborhood both uncovered drug dealing and led to seven arrests.

Oh, well, that's different.

[Senator Pardek]

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

As long as these actions keep one joint out of a kid's mouth, or one firearm off the streets, it's worth it.

[EBUCK]

I guess so, it was just released.

Where should it be?

[EBUCK]

That was </sarcasm> I'm sure.

[FreeReign]

Quote " put a gun in the face of 12-year-old Jennifer Espady" Pathetic

Somebody who puts a gun in the face of a 12-year-old is pathetic. Somebody who sells drugs to a 12-year-old is pathetic.

[John Beresford Tipton]

Fourth Amendment:
"...[N]o warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

"a warrant that allowed them to search all the units at 3629 Olinville Ave"

A warrant is supposed to describe exactly where is to be searched and on what grounds. Here is a building with 4 apartments. Unless it was one perp holed up in 4 apartments what kind of an asshole of a judge signed the warrant?

But is gets better:
"An NYPD spokesperson said that cops stand by their decision to raid the building, and noted that two simultaneous raids in the same neighborhood both uncovered drug dealing and led to seven arrests."

So it was justified to raid one building ( with 4 different apartments) because you later found out that raids "in the same neighboorhood" were fruitful?

[Yeti]

As long as these actions keep one joint out of a kid's mouth, or one firearm off the streets, it's worth it.

There ya go, Senator!

Whatever it takes to stem the tide of amotivational syndrome that is reaching epidemic proportions in this nation, we're ready to do it.

[Lucas1]

Quote "Somebody who puts a gun in the face of a 12-year-old is pathetic. Somebody who sells drugs to a 12-year-old is pathetic."

Agree 100%

[Larry Lucido]

The cops were looking for two handguns

Yea, God forbid anyone in NYC have a handgun! Might make it unsafe to keep on kicking in doors.