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You're correct, no Swat. I misunderstood the term raid that everyone has bandied about... I am a limey brit. Is it normal over there for people serving a warra

• zaroth 6y ago
  I’m no expert in this but I have a brother-in-law who is a police officer and a brother whose is a defense lawyer who deals with these cases sometimes; here’s how I understand it to work basically. If you refuse to come to the door for 20 minutes, yes I suspect police will draw their guns if they have to force entry into your house to get you. So basically they come to the door and the procedure is “knock-and-announce” — they can’t just immediately come and break your door down unless a judge has signed off on that specifically. Police are required to wait a “reasonable” amount of time. Usually that’s more than 20 seconds but not more than a couple minutes for you to open the door. If you refuse to open the door after a reasonable amount of time, the police are allowed to make a “forced entry”. At that point, having to force entry into a house is itself an escalation and a violent act, and they would reasonably want to be prepared for any response they might encounter since the people inside have already indicated they will not come easily. Meaning it’s more likely they will draw their guns in a forced entry situation.