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USA Today: "Critics knock no-knock police raids"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

USA Today: Critics knock no-knock police raids by Ron Barnett and Paul Alongi: In the instant he appeared, the video shows, three shots rang out and the man, Todd Blair, 45, fell to the floor, dead. The Ogden incident was among a growing number of no-knock police raids last year, a tactic that has grown in use from 2,000 to 3,000 raids a year in the mid-1980s, to 70,000 to 80,000 annually, says Peter Kraska, a professor of criminal justice at Eastern Kentucky University who tracks the issue. That increase has raised questions about the tactic, including whether the surprise element poses an unnecessary threat to people whose residences are invaded.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).