{"id":16600,"date":"2015-04-01T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16600"},"modified":"2015-04-01T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:45:33","slug":"wapo-the-proper-way-to-make-mistakes-in-drug-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16600","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The proper way to make mistakes in drug policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/03\/31\/the-proper-way-to-make-mistakes-in-drug-policing\/\">The proper way to make mistakes in drug policing<\/a> by Radley Balko:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That said, in much of the country, this could have been a lot worse. The WBNF headline for this story is \u201cTioga Terror.\u201d The subhead is, \u201cPolice Raid Home, Find Nothing.\u201d But this wasn\u2019t really a raid. In fact, if the police must serve search warrants on suspected drug offenders, this is exactly the way to do it. They pulled Mr. Dunlap over as he was leaving his home, they didn\u2019t rush the home in the middle of the night. They entered through an unlocked door, not with a battering ram. I\u2019m sure it was traumatizing for the Dunlaps to be falsely arrested and held at gunpoint, but that\u2019s quite a bit better than being woken up with a flash grenade, thrown to the ground, and stepped on, all with a gun to the back of the head. And the Dunlaps\u2019 dog is alive to bark another day.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this isn\u2019t to diminish the undoubtably scary experience of getting falsely arrested. There is the larger problem of how and why the local cops mistook a quilting business with a meth lab. And exactly how much scrutiny local judges and prosecutors could possibly be giving these warrants to have signed off on such an egregious mistake. The lack of an apology is also troubling (though not uncommon).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The proper way to make mistakes in drug policing by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16601,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16600\/revisions\/16601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}