You're wrong on no knock warrants. Think of tactics. Do you want to give a violent felon advance warning to get his firearm? If you are coming to arrest for drugs do you want to give them time to flush the drugs, hit the button to use their hard drive erase, take hostages or flee? There are uses for a no knock warrant.
First - I have to say that I WAS WRONG about the Taylor issue being a “no knock”...
But - I will never agree for them in anything other than the rarest of circumstances. Drug case?? HELL NO... The drug war is the horrible.
To qualify - I come from a saturated with military & police. Everyone in my family has served other than mom and sister and one brother. Have a cousin who just made Admiral and took command of a nuke submarine group. Another uncle was CO of joint service Air Station Belle Chase (an extremely important line of defense as it is right on the gulf - 2 fighters are at ready 24/7/365)
On the police front - no sheriffs or chiefs - but many uniform and detectives. We’ve had many debates during the holidays over police / military tactics - and “most - not all” agree that because of human error and EVERY one of us having a strong belief that is an Americans DUTY to have his home and person armed - a no knock mistake is not worth it in MOST cases. These should be granted only when evidentiary surveillance proves the correct home via pic/video - AND the high likelihood of danger to the officers.
No knock warrants are given out far to often. I absolutely would shoot first if someone kicked in my door - I will never wait to make sure they are a threat. The invasion of my home is enough. I am 100% with Rand Paul on this - and many issues.
AGAIN - I REALIZE THIS BREONNA TAYLOR EVENT WAS NOT A “NO-KNOCK” and therefore I have to say that other than the undisciplined fire control of the officer charged - there was no breach in constitutional rights!
**** Edit - I am calling my uncle today to make sure that I am correct that **** made Admiral and has assumed command... He was a young officer (by standard) when he made Captain and assumed command of his first Kit class sub... We aren’t super close anymore but he is a pretty cool guy but being submerged and hidden months ago a time literally under pressure takes a very different kind of man.