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If you're in a classroom with innocent victims, and I know that shots have been fired, I need to engage you, even if you stopped firing, I'm going to make entry into the room so we can begin to administer life-saving aid to any potential victims.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you're in a classroom with innocent victims and I know that shots have been fired, I need to engage you. Even if you stopped firing, I'm going to make entry into the room so we can begin to administer life-saving aid to any potential victims.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You have to go back years to understand why Amir Lockes parents have no knocks, they were developed as a tool, through courts, for the preservation of evidence... primarily crack cocaine. That's no longer the case, and hasn't been for at least ten years. ( We)'ve been strongly teaching, advocating, for other alternatives.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What I will say, if you look at comparable cities that size, 140 no knocks would cause pause. I'd be looking at that saying,' Let's go through these one by one,' and I hate to say it. At the end of the day, I'm going to bet you... 140 no-knock warrants shouldn't have been served as no-knock warrants.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What's the likelihood of us not making entry and it being disposed of ? It's not like the occupant has an incinerator. Where's the gun going ? at the end of the day, if you're going to risk human life, even including the suspect, because you want a piece of evidence... then it's flawed analysis of risk mitigation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You get people involved in spitting contests, so what this boils down to -- is law enforcement leadership. Having chiefs and deputy chiefs who are educated, knowledgeable, experienced enough in SWAT tactics, risk mitigation, decision making, selection, who are then providing effective leadership.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And I hate to say it. At the end of the day, I'm going to bet you... 140 no-knock warrants shouldn't have been served as no-knock warrants.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've internally tried to exorcise that from an option that agencies are using.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If there is a weapon of any sort, not just guns, in somebody's hands when we respond in a situation like an active shooter or an assault in progress... officers have additional pressures placed upon( them) to evaluate an awful lot of info in a short period of time and hopefully arrive at the correct answer to mitigate danger to everyone involved, now as a responding officer, I have to very quickly, and when I say quickly : seconds, milliseconds ; make a determination in my mind, is this a friend or foe type of thing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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