re who s next mormons and jews in article gerry apr onion cmu edu gerry cmu edu gerry roston writes no a no knock warrant is in clear violation of the th amendment okay what about the fact that they were tipped off they shouldn t have opened fire right wrong think about this i am a drug dealer and my competition wants to do away with me they call me and tell me that the feds are on their way with a no knock warrant so being moronic sheep we wait with our guns holstered now instead of the feds in comes my competition and we re history the only acceptable answer to a no knock warrant is blazing guns i may sound paranoid but our government is out of control and killing a few federal officers make knock some sense back into it hmm the police strategy of bursting in with weapons drawn clearly marked as officers and yelling police repeatedly this is used every day to bust drug houses the idea is to awe the suspects into submission with surprise and display of firepowere in order to avoid a gun fight as for not knocking it s a sad necessity in many cases since the suspects will attempt to escape or even fight usually this strategy works if it didn t then it wouldn t be used so commonly now would it whether or not it was appropriate to use this strategy on the bd is not my point since i don t think any of us have enough information to make a clear judgement on this issue i merely point out that it is a valid strategy which is used every day furthermore we don t know of any substitute strategy capable of apprehending potentially dangerous and armed suspects do you suggest that the police always knock with guns holstered and never arrest any suspects until they have been allowed to inspect the officers s badges just what should the police do when apprehending potentially dangerous and armed suspects how far can they reasonably go to identiy themselves what do you suggest they can do which can t be faked by the competition even if you ve got deadly enemies who may pretend to be cops that s not an excuse to murder police in the case of the bd s there was almost definitely at most the paranoid delusion of deadly enimies who would pretend to be cops isaac kuo isaackuo math berkeley edu o twinkle twinkle little sig keep it less than lines big
