Justice Dept opens policing probe over Breonna Taylor death

Good call. Blue cities run by Progressive Democrats are making their cities unlivable.

Agree 100% that no-knock warrants are abused. Kind of like SWAT teams and big shiny military style vehicles, they are just another toy that police like to use even though they are not warranted. Especially in drug raids, who cares if the drugs are destroyed by the alleged criminal? That way, the drugs are off the street- which I thought was the whole purpose of the laws.

However, using the Rayshard Brooks case as any kind of example is a bit foolish. Brooks was detained for drunk driving, fought with police, grabbed a police officer's weapon (taser), fled from them, then turned and tried to fire the taser. At that point, he was shot. Not a clear cut case at all.

No knock warrants just sound crazy to me. Certainly there's a chance that evidence will be destroyed, but on the flip side you're going to end up with dead innocents or dead cops just due to the nature of the situation. Is that worth preserving evidence that's so small it can be flushed down a toilet?

They should. No knock warrants, kill whoever is inside. Bear in mind, this was when Trump's hate militia were trying to ignite a race war last year.

Longtime chief Steve Conrad was forced out in the summer after officers responding to a shooting during a protest failed to turn on their body cameras

Officers who fail to turn on their body cameras or who turn them off should be automatically charged with destroying evidence. Because that’s what it is.

In the end, there's no charges filed in the raid

Kentucky's no-knock warrant policing and the police itself made the error

No knock warrants were not totally prohibited according to the article. They can still be used under more restrictive conditions.

Good call. Blue cities run by Progressive Democrats are making their cities unlivable.

Compared to what? Cities in South Carolina, Mississippi and much of Alabama are poor and run down. Texas has no zoning whatsoever, the state doesn't permit it, so cities there are miserable. Bakersfield CA is solidly Republican and it has the most police killings per capita of any city in the nation with the surrounding county Kern County (Kevin McCarthy's congressional district btw) leading the number of deaths per capita among counties. This is a county where the Republican sheriff is on record on a video telling deputies it costs the county less if they kill an inmate than injure them breaking up a jail yard fight. As for police forces, their unions and the Supreme Court make it very difficult to reform them. Their unions too often have a siege mentality and defend blatant misconduct. Don't confuse fear of being shot by an out of control police department with good governance.