{"id":36569,"date":"2019-02-26T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36569"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:32:54","slug":"wapo-internal-memo-suggests-little-rock-police-serve-every-search-warrant-with-a-swat-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36569","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Internal memo suggests Little Rock police serve every search warrant with a SWAT team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/02\/26\/internal-memo-suggests-little-rock-police-serve-every-search-warrant-with-swat-team\/?utm_term=.4d7e54c0fc4e\">Internal memo suggests Little Rock police serve every search warrant with a SWAT team<\/a> by Radley Balko:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a mandate from the Office of the Chief of Police that the SWAT team execute all search warrants.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last fall, I published an investigation into the way the Little Rock Police Department has been serving its drug warrants. The piece explored three general allegations: First, the LRPD has been serving drugs warrants with extraordinarily powerful explosives that other SWAT veterans told me are wholly inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Second, there\u2019s irrefutable video evidence that one LRPD informant and his police handlers were misleading about their investigation into a man named Roderick Talley. There\u2019s also persuasive evidence that they did the same in other cases as well. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, when I reviewed nearly 100 drug warrants from the past several years, I noticed that nearly all of them were for no-knock raids. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have a post soon laying out what has happened in Little Rock since we published that report. But over the weekend, I received a document that adds a bit more to the original story. It\u2019s a page from a 2014 LRPD report about a drug raid. The raid in question was a no-knock raid that was served by the city\u2019s SWAT team. In this particular case, the report says the suspect was known to have possessed firearms in the past, though it isn\u2019t clear whether that information was conveyed in the search warrant. It also includes the broad statement that \u201cmany times guns and violence are associated with narcotics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But one line seems particularly significant: \u201cIt is a mandate from the Office of the Chief of Police that the SWAT team execute all search warrants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Internal memo suggests Little Rock police serve every search warrant with a SWAT team by Radley Balko: \u201cIt is a mandate from the Office of the Chief of Police that the SWAT team execute all search warrants.\u201d<\/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-36569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36569","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=36569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36570,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36569\/revisions\/36570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}