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Mayor Calvo sat down for a Cato podcast, and did quite well for himself:

http://cato.org/dailypodcast/cheyecalvo ... 080912.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The PGSO has concluded their investigation and concluded the officers were fully justified in both forcing entry, and shooting the dogs.

Their "investigation" did not question either Calvo or his mother, the two people who were in the house at the time.

boomerang wrote:Why should the mayor get treated differently than the construction worker or the computer programmer?

To his great credit, the mayor is pointing out that this kind of thing happens frequently, only it doesn't make the news because the victims aren't elected officials.

(Be prepared for profanity in the comments):
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/08/10/c ... o-gets-it/

"The reality is that this happens all the time in this country and disproportionally in Prince Georges county and most of the people to whom it happens don’t have the community support and the platform to speak out. So I appreciate you paying attention to our condition but I hope you’ll also give attention to those who may not have the same platform and voice that we have."

More good excerpts, and a link to his letter to DOJ, at the link. The one that troubles me the most:

"Georgia was questioned by a detective named Kim, who in the course of her questioning managed to talk on her cell phone and to make a veterinary appointment for her dog. Georgia overheard Kim tell her friend that, this was her first raid and that it was "exciting" because it was the mayor’s house."

bryang wrote:This is the first time I have heard about drug dealers shipping drugs to unsuspecting homes and then intercepting it.

From Balko:
Since the raid last week, we’ve learned that police have arrested two men in conjunction with a scheme using delivery services to ship marijuana across the country. The plan was for operatives within the companies to intercept the packages before they reached their targets. The destination addresses may have been random, or simply chosen because of their location along routes convenient to the scheme. In fact, the Washington Post reports in the story linked above that some packages were accidentally delivered, at which point operatives went to the houses of the innocent people who’d received them to ask for their return.

In this case, police found (through a drug dog) the package while it was in transit. The police were the ones who actually delivered the package, so obviously the operative couldn't divert it at that point.

This also brings up an interesting question about the validity of the warrant: how can a warrant be legitimate, if police already know the named thing is in the house, because they put it there?

What if the mayor, who thought his home was being invaded by armed robbers, had a gun and tried to defend his family?

He'd either be charged with capital murder like Ryan Frederick, convicted like Cory Maye, or killed on the spot like Kathryn Johnston.

Killing dogs has become almost automatic when SWAT teams are used to serve warrants. The term "puppycide" is used to refer to this practice.