rfenst wrote:Officer safety is also be an important factor in obtaining no-knock warrants.
Why is it less safe to knock, announce yourself as police, then kick the door in? That makes zero sense to me...
If I'm running a drug house and someone kicks the door in, ima open fire... if i know for fact it's cops kicking the door in, there's a slight chance I don't open fire because they would be the only people I'd expect to kick my door in and not murder me... i would assume anyone else who isn't the police is fixing to murder me right out the gate...