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New Mexico Gets Bain'd: Romney Took $2.5M in Tax Dollars and 1,000 Jobs From New Mexicans in 2000s

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kirkspencer7/19/2012 6:36:04 am PDT

The erroneous raids (that occur between 3 and 15% of the time, depending on who’s reporting) are one of the reasons I dislike our “war on drugs”.

The whole practice began because the police argued that following normal practice of knocking on doors and open warrants allowed the bad guys to dispose of all the evidence; flushing them down the toilet being the most common practice.

However, I’ve noticed a trend recently of getting no-knocks for things like suspected meth labs - things which not only will take significant time and effort to destroy but which leave a lot of ancillary evidence anyway. At the same time the family dog is almost always killed (whether the raid is valid or not the dog is a threat) and children are almost always forced to wait for a long period being treated as suspects or evidence. (example: Babies often forced to remain till they can be searched because somebody once shoved a balloon down a baby’s throat.)

And far too many of these are exonerated in court.