{"id":35126,"date":"2018-10-15T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35126"},"modified":"2018-10-15T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:33:04","slug":"wapo-opinion-little-rocks-dangerous-and-illegal-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35126","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Opinion: Little Rock\u2019s dangerous and illegal drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2018\/10\/14\/little-rocks-dangerous-and-illegal-drug-war\/?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.39713c1b8e25\">Little Rock\u2019s dangerous and illegal drug war<\/a> by Radley Balko (with security video of the raid) (and this is a product of <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=7651846853018458306&#038;q=hudson%2Bv.%2Bmichigan&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1002\">Hudson v. Michigan<\/a>, which we can thank SCOTUS for):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are three main areas of concern. First, the narcotics unit appears to be routinely violating the Fourth Amendment by serving nearly all of its warrants with no-knock raids. It\u2019s asking for no-knock warrants without demonstrating why each suspect merits a no-knock entry, as required by federal law. Worse yet, Little Rock judges are then signing off on these warrants.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the LRPD is serving many of these warrants by using explosives that SWAT veterans I\u2019ve interviewed say are reckless, dangerous and wholly inappropriate for use in drug raids. I\u2019ve also spoken to at least two people who say there were children in the home when the explosives were used.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and perhaps most troubling, there\u2019s clear evidence that one informant whom LRPD drug cops have been using \u2014 the informant used to obtain probable cause against Talley and others \u2014 has been lying to police about his drug buys. At minimum, the detectives who worked with him have been inexcusably sloppy in their handling of him. But there\u2019s also evidence that raises questions about their own truthfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these raids haven\u2019t turned up any contraband at all. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see these affidavits, too, and I&#8217;ve heard the stories, and we&#8217;ve all seen the pattern. The City Attorney says they are complying with state law and the civil rights laws. He didn&#8217;t mention the Fourth Amendment. In addition, the judges rubberstamping these things need judicial ethics complaints filed against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Opinion: Little Rock\u2019s dangerous and illegal drug war by Radley Balko (with security video of the raid) (and this is a product of Hudson v. Michigan, which we can thank SCOTUS for):<\/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-35126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35138,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35126\/revisions\/35138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}