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? The FBI have information about the people they are nabbing and already have a risk profile. If the people the are grabbing have zero history of violence, no
by jollybean 5y ago
? The FBI have information about the people they are nabbing and already have a risk profile.
If the people the are grabbing have zero history of violence, no gun ownership, no gang association, there's no reason to smash down the door.
Even judging by neighbourhood:
It's probably unfair but my bet is diplomats don't generally get into shootouts with the cops.
They could probably safely do the same in middle class neighbourhoods as well.
It's not a nice statement about equity, rather my belief that the 'risk' to police is probably entirely from specific kinds of problem areas which are probably poor.
If you look at a map of violent crime in cities, the delineations are pretty clear.
Some neighbourhoods have almost zero violent crime, two blocks down, it's Caracas.
'Zip Code' profiling might actually be just, but I don't see why they could not do it on a case to case basis.
- YawningAngel 5y agoI'm going to take a guess that lots of the subjects of no knock raids have no history of violence or gang association. Gun ownership, stupidly, is legal in the US, so it seems like poor grounds for a police action
- lalopalota 5y agoThere is a perfectly valid reason for law enforcement to break down a door that does not have anything to do with risk profile: they have a search warrant and no one with a key is available to open a door (like in this article).