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What happened to "THIS IS THE POLICE, OPEN UP" along with banging the door?

The only situation where I understand a no-knock warrant is like when the police is actually targeting someone's computer and don't want to go through all the hustle of cracking the password.

>>TomK32+(OP)
But they were in plain clothes anyway. Any gangster could knock and announce themselves as being the police.

>>jobigo+g4
At least the gangsters would announce themselves, on your scenario.

>>TomK32+(OP)
I still don't see it being justified. The only time I can see no-knock raids being okay is if a person is being held hostage.

>>TomK32+(OP)
Anyone can say they are police.

>>TomK32+(OP)
> The only situation where I understand a no-knock warrant

Quit overthinking this.

Police "understand" no-knock warrants because judges approve them and there are no accountability problems.

You and I find it distasteful, but as long as judges keep approving the no-knock warrants at current rates, DAs keep using the evidence gathered from them, and defense attorneys can't get evidence gathered from them dropped from the case, all of the incentives align. Short of a massive cultural change, only a legislative restriction will change this behavior.

>>dillon+Fj
So you could tell if they're police by the fact that they didn't knock. Brilliant! :-)