BigGuy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:20 amsrothstein wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:47 pm I cannot support a law banning no-knock warrants. They are a necessary tool for police officers to be able to do their job. I agree that they have been abused and we may need to put political pressure on the police departments to change the way they are used, but I do not agree that all the cases that have had bad results for either the police or the victims/suspects have had anything to do with it being a no-knock warrant. I also do not believe that there is any way a law can be written to allow no-knock warrants under some circumstances while banning them under others. For the law to be enforceable, it almost has to be a complete ban and that is a bad thing.
I strongly suggest we rethink the laws we are enforcing, as opposed to keeping things illegal while restricting the police. The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure at everything except restricting citizen's rights and increasing the violence in crime and law enforcement. And that is just one area of law where the cops get the blame but it should be on the legislator's shoulders.The problem is that I often wonder who is in charge of Law Enforcement. I want reasonable people to have the tools they need. But I worry about socialist using using those tools to prosecute constitutionalist.
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