> Cops don't want to shoot innocent people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-insurgents-in-virginia-the-police-raided-me/2015/07/24/2e1

> Cops don't want to shoot innocent people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-insurgents-in-virginia-the-police-raided-me/2015/07/24/2e114e54-2b02-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-iraq-i-raided-ins... > When I later visited the Fairfax County police station to gather details about what went wrong, I met the shift commander, Lt. Erik Rhoads. I asked why his officers hadn’t contacted management before they raided the apartment. Why did they classify the incident as a forced entry, when the information they had suggested something innocuous? Why not evaluate the situation before escalating it? > Rhoads defended the procedure, calling the officers’ actions “on point.” It’s not standard to conduct investigations beforehand because that delays the apprehension of suspects, he told me. Yeah, given how they reacted in this article and the fact they defended not even bothering to contact the apartment complex...yeah. Sorry, I'm not really able to believe that. Its pretty clear this procedure exists to pad some kind of statistic rather than any rational cause. It can't be justified outside of that. "Does the property owner know about this?" is literally the first question worth asking if you cared about not shooting innocent people.