Every raid, same thing: the cop was always suspicious of a situation where he was supposed to follow the lead of a civilian, and he never understood what he was supposed to be doing — there was a crime involved, but he wasn't there to arrest the criminal, and somehow a lawyer had obtained a warrant to break into somebody's house and take his stuff.
In the dark of night with guns drawn, the police used "no-knock" search warrants to break down the doors of an apartment building in the Bridgeport district of Chicago at approximately 11 30 pm that Wednesday.
Howard Bowe, 34, had a car-wash and a lawn-mowing business, and his family and friends say he was neither violent nor a drug dealer, but the cops had a warrant to break down his door, and after they did so they shot Bowe's pit bull and then the man himself.
Life Is Messy Here is where some homespun advice is warranted, if only to break the grimness of these insoluble problems.
Confidentiality was warranted to participants.
Two worried aloud about their mothers' regular use of homemade methamphetamine, in a county where the judge signs two or three search warrants each week to break up meth labs.
College presidents would also be given the power to determine if a demonstration is sufficiently "disruptive" to warrant calling the police onto campus to break it up.
Arrest Warrant Four justices agreed that an arrest warrant that authorized the police in Toledo, Ohio, to break into the home of a woman suspected of selling drugs was unconstitutional because it had been issued on the basis of a complaint that lacked any detail about how the police knew of any crime.
Leadership is having the courage to make difficult choices -- even to break promises -- when conditions warrant it.
And in Maryland, the transparency law has shown that police departments in the state are using SWAT tactics in precisely the ways critics have claimed: to break into homes to serve warrants on people suspected of low-level drug crimes.
