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If the police break down your door in executing a warrant...

If the police break down your door in executing a warrant...

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  • Total voters
    46
I think the police should be required to pay for the door anyway unless they first knocked and asked you to open the door. Generally, I think police should pay for any damage done to property even if executing a search warrant.
 
radcen said:
If the police break down your door in executing a warrant...

...and they are at the wrong house... Should they be required to pay for repairs and a replacement door?

The question presumes that the wrong address was listed on the warrant and/or the police went to the wrong address different from that which was listed on the warrant. The question does not presume a good faith but incorrect suspicion of an otherwise innocent person.
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Police should have to pay for damage even if they got the correct house and even if the person is guilty. The cops chose the time and place to strike, it's their bill.

You brake it, you bought it.
 
I thnk the police should be required to read the rights of the homeowner to the homeowner in the event this circumstance occurs. That way the police also are made aware beforehand of potential for abuse and reprecussions.
 
ChezC3 said:
I've yet to meet one that didn't have a power trip. The nicest, sweet as pie lady I knew 3 years into it -- all of the sudden acts like she'd take a billy club to my head at the slightest provocation. I'm not saying it is a completely conscience decision, that every single cop went into LE because they were victims of bullying, but there is a part of them somewhere, deep down that needs that authority to fulfill themselves.

SWAT definitely need to be under the microscope and as I'm an advocate for ending the insane and asinine War on Drugs, we agree to a point.
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Is that sweet little lady you knew on a sudden power trip or is it more likely that you decided to be a raging dick to her once she became a cop?


In my experience, people who hate cops are low-life, drain on society criminals. Ok, I don't really believe that, but as long as we're painting cops with such a broad brush....
 
When I was a kid, well lets just say I had a mispent childhood, a buddy of mine house was raided. He was just lucky and they did not find a single seed. The police completely tossed his house. He had a bunch of hand rolled tobbaco cigarettes the police busted open. The police did not even find a seed in his whole house. The police attempted to return things to relatively normal when they left but they broke something and broke open all his hand rolled cigarettes. The judge made the PD pay for his time to roll his cigarettes back and everything else they broke. This was before the war on drugs.
 
X Factor said:
Is that sweet little lady you knew on a sudden power trip or is it more likely that you decided to be a raging dick to her once she became a cop?


In my experience, people who hate cops are low-life, drain on society criminals. Ok, I don't really believe that, but as long as we're painting cops with such a broad brush....
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She changed, I didn't.

Is it your experience to also imply someone hates cops because he believes they have an under current within them that craves the power of authority? That's an interesting leap...
 
Whenever we broke property in Afghan in the coarse of our mission, be it damaging a structure while blowing up a mortar team or clearing part of a farm field to build a hasty cop, we paid the owner for damages. That's just the cost of doing business. I see no reason why Americans should be treated less, especially when the criminal doesn't own the property; you shouldn't punish landlords because the tenant broke the lease and the law in committing a crime.
 
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Jerry said:
Whenever we broke property in Afghan in the coarse of our mission, be it damaging a structure while blowing up a mortar team or clearing part of a farm field to build a hasty cop, we paid the owner for damages. That's just the cost of doing business. I see no reason why Americans should be treated less, especially when the criminal doesn't own the property; you shouldn't punish landlords because the tenant broke the lease and the law in committing a crime.
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I wholeheartedly agree. We did the same thing when I was stationed in Germany. If we broke something, we paid for it.
 
The police or local government should pay for any property damage even in the case of a legally executed warrant.

The bigger problem is the pretty much unfettered use of no knock warrants, the militarization of the police and the qualified immunity that police have.
 
They should. Of course, if they did, I'd have to stop leaving anonymous tips with the cops that people I don't like have children tied up in the basement or have illegal gambling going on in the basement.
 
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