When you watch your favorite cop shows you see them use no knock warrants when they breach a criminal's house. They barge in with aggressive force without stating that they’re the police giving criminals no time to destroy evidence and catching them red handed doing illegal activity. But, are these no knock warrants safe for the innocent people? Also, what happens when police does this to the wrong home? This puts the homeowner and their neighbors in a dangerous position. Because the police are expecting a dangerous criminal and as the doors are breached by the police the homeowner most likely expects a robbery is going on.
My first reaction in this situation, not knowing who has knocked my door down would be to protect myself and loved ones. In Atlanta, Georgia 2006, police serve a no knock warrant on a supposedly drug house. During the raid police fired off 39 shots hitting a 92 year old woman five times and killing her. After the hail of bullets the officers who served the warrant didn’t find any drugs or weapons. No drugs, weapons, and a shot up old lady doesn't look good for police. To cover it up the officers planted weed and cocaine around the house. If the police would’ve announced their presence before entering the house her life could have been saved.
In The Crucible the town is issuing warrants out on innocent people accusing them of witchcraft and to cover up the reason for killing these people they plant fake evidence of witchcraft. If Proctor would announce his sin of adultery on his wife he could saved lives. Overall no knock warrants aren't safe and shouldn't be allowed. No knock warrants put the officers and the innocent in more danger than they're already in.
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DeleteI agree that there should be warrants issued to raid someones house like that. Because of the police being reckless, a 92 year old woman is now dead at the hands of the police. She wouldn't have died if the police got a warrant first and at least knocked and said, "Police! Open up!" If the lady had heard that then she would've responded and then there wouldn't be so much hostility in that case. But in this case, there wasn't a warrant and the police were too aggressive and because of that, they killed a 92 year old innocent woman.
ReplyDeleteI thought they needed a warrant or probable cause to even blitz somebody crib like that. If this occurs without a warrant then yeah, it may put innocent people in harms way.
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