Maybe I missed it, but has it actually been stated that this was a no-knock warrant, anywhere other than SH comments here? The video didn’t say that, unless I missed it. Seems like everyone here is just running along with the first guy to say it.
Obviously, if it was, I’m in agreement that this shouldn’t be a no-knock warrant scenario. The guy had zero criminal history sans traffic, and the search warrant was, I assume, related to an apparently non-violent offense. I can’t imagine a violent crime in which a weed whacker would be the weapon. Sounds like a huge clusterfuck regardless, with the radio traffic recordings indicating the search warrant was for a different address.
Our local health department showed up at my PD a few weeks ago with a search warrant for an address that may or may not have been correct, asking that we provide security while they executed the warrant. The listed address on the warrant matched the property number on our county’s GIS, but not the visibly posted number at the front of the property, City permit applications/water billing, or the USPS delivery address. With so much contradictory proof of address, I ended up telling them to pound sand until they got the discrepancies figured out, or to execute it without us. They protested for a while, until I explained they were relying the accuracy of one computer geek inputing the address in the GIS system to keep them from being the defendant in a 1983 suit, and if they were wrong I would gladly testify that they were warned against it. Needless to say, they called it an early day and I went back to work.
Our search warrants always list the address, GIS parcel number, and a detailed physical description of the property and all included structures to be searched. Prior to service execution, we hold a briefing with all officers involved in the service in ANY capacity attending. If you don’t attend the briefing, you’re not coming with. We include GoogleMaps street-view photos of the property (if we don’t have current pre-surveillance photos, which I make a point to get ahead of time if possible), criminal history and DL photos of all known occupants, and an approach route map for every officer in attendance to take with them. There’s more, but those are the most relevant contents of the briefing to this situation.
If you follow some basic precautionary steps, you’ll be right 100% of the time. In my career, I’ve never seen a mistake like above. It boggles the mind how anyone could serve a warrant at the wrong address in our current technologically documented world.
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