no-knock raids
Surprise police entries
No-knock raids are police entries into premises without announcing their presence or waiting for a response—officers simply break down the door.
The tactic is meant to prevent suspects from destroying evidence or arming themselves, but it has led to deaths of innocent people and remains controversial: The city banned no-knock raids after the shooting.
- SWATElite police squad
- warrantFormal authorization document
- probable causeLegal threshold for searches
- policeCivil law enforcement
- breachBreaking of agreement
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- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
- police misconductpolice brutality, excessive force, brutality, misconduct, abuse of power
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude