Atlanta Police Union: Don't mess with no-knock warrants

[phill4paul]

ATLANTA (CBS46) -
Carrie Mills is a retired Atlanta Police officer with 30 years on the job - primarily in APD's drug unit.

Mills is now a union rep for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. She considers herself an expert on search warrants, particularly no knock warrants, which allows officers to enter a structure without knocking first.

Mills says no-knock warrants helped close a lot of cases while she was an officer.

"If we knock and announced, all evidence is going to be destroyed," Mills said.

( Sooo...problem solved? p4p )

State Sen. Vincent Fort, (D-39), has announced plans to introduce a bill that would make it harder to get no-knock warrants.

Fort says he was moved to introduce his bill after 19-month-old Bounkham "Bou Bou" Phonesavanh was seriously injured when a flash grenade exploded near his face during a botched drug raid involving a no-knock warrant in Habersham County.

"We are saying there should be restrictions on them and we think the situation in the recent past where they have been abused warrants that," Fort said.

But Mills doesn't agree.

"I don't think any changes are needed because it is not easy now," Mills said.

Mills says law makers should be careful what they ask for.

"You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community's right to live in a crime-free environment. You can't have them both," Mills said.

more:http://www.wtoc.com/story/27909222/p...knock-warrants


As long as cops can flash-bang a baby in a crib and get away with it there will never be a "crime-free environment."

[tod evans]

"You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community's right to live in a crime drug-free environment. You can't have them both," Mills said.

This $#@! is using deceitful verbiage, so I fixed it....


Now that the verbiage is fixed how's that really working out for ya' down there in Ga.?

There's more dope than ever isn't there?

Almost 50 years of this BS and the only folks I see benefiting are the members of the "Just-Us" department....

[Suzanimal]

"You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community's right to live in a crime-free environment. You can't have them both," Mills said.

So much wrong with that statement, I don't know where to begin.

Edit: Looks like tod evans does.


Related:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...knock-warrants

[jmdrake]

I have an idea. End the war on drugs. No knock warrant problem solved! Seriously, most of the time these warrants are for the GWOD.

[tod evans]

I have an idea. End the war on drugs. No knock warrant problem solved! Seriously, most of the time these warrants are for the GWOD.

Exactly!

[Origanalist]

"You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community's right to live in a crime-free environment. You can't have them both,"

I have a new sig line.

Hmmm, going to have to work on that one.

[phill4paul]

I have a new sig line.

Hmmm, going to have to work on that one.

Yeah, but it looks like it is attributed to me.

[Origanalist]

Yeah, but it looks like it is attributed to me.

Fixed.

[aGameOfThrones]

Does Carrie Mills like to burn babies?

[Occam's Banana]

"You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community's right to live in a crime-free environment. You can't have them both," Mills said.

Sounds more like a threat than a statement of fact about reality: "You have to draw the line - or else! We're ain't gonna let you have both!"

And setting aside the fact that communities don't have "rights," there's the question of what hut-hutting goons like Carrie Mills have ever had to do with "a community's [alleged] right to live in a crime-free environment." Where, pray tell, are these "crime-free environments" of which Mills speaks?

If a community's environment is crime-free, then there's no need for the likes of Carrie Mills - and if there's a need for the likes of Carrie Mills, then the community's environment cannot ipso facto be crime-free. So by her own "logic," she and her ilk are either superfluous or incompetent.

IOW: SHE is the one trying to "have it both ways" ...

[Acala]

This $#@! is using deceitful verbiage, so I fixed it....


Now that the verbiage is fixed how's that really working out for ya' down there in Ga.?

There's more dope than ever isn't there?

Almost 50 years of this BS and the only folks I see benefiting are the members of the "Just-Us" department....

Yup. What evidence of a REAL crime (you know, with a victim and all) can be flushed down the toilet in the time it takes to knock on a door and treat a citizen with a presumption of respect? Gonna flush that gun or knife? Gonna flush the stolen goods? The no-knock warrant is ALL about the war on drugs.