{"id":590,"date":"2006-11-27T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T07:36:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T07:36:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta to review use of no-knock warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article today: Chief vows to review shooting<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Five days after an elderly woman was killed in a gunbattle that left three officers wounded, Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington said Sunday night his department will review its policy on “no knock” warrants and its use of confidential informants.<\/p>\n

Speaking for the first time since the Tuesday night shooting death of Kathryn Johnston at her home in northwest Atlanta, Pennington said his office “will turn over every stone to make sure we get to the reason why this tragic incident happened.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The police chief said officers found marijuana inside the house but “not a large quantity.” Previously, police only said drugs were seized at Johnston’s home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the recent NYC shooting with 50 shots, the NYTimes.com has this article today: 50 Shots Fired, and the Experts Offer a Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is known in police parlance as \u201ccontagious shooting\u201d \u2014 gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a threat. It spreads like germs, like laughter, or fear. An officer fires, so his colleagues do, too.<\/p>\n

The phenomenon appears to have happened last year, when eight officers fired 43 shots at an armed man in Queens, killing him. In July, three officers fired 26 shots at a pit bull that had bitten a chunk out of an officer\u2019s leg in a Bronx apartment building. And there have been other episodes: in 1995, in the Bronx, officers fired 125 bullets during a bodega robbery, with one officer firing 45 rounds. <\/p>\n

Just what happened on Saturday is still being investigated. Police experts, however, suggested in interviews yesterday that contagious shooting played a role in a fatal police shooting in Queens Saturday morning. According to the police account, five officers fired 50 shots at a bridegroom who, leaving his bachelor party at a strip club, twice drove his car into a minivan carrying plainclothes police officers investigating the club. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No cases today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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