Ahhh, the NO-KNOCK warrant. They require a higher degree of judicial scrutiny for obvious reasons. A handful of states have eliminated them all together. Still, they have their place and time. When SWAT is deployed to serve warrants, it is probably a NO-KNOCK. The applicant must establish that an articulable justification exists because of his reasonable belief that the subject will pose an imminent threat of bodily harm or death to humankind during the execution of serving the warrant.An irrelative question. I jump back into websleuth again after taking a break for 4 years. I read the news LE broke windows and doors to arrest BK. But do they really just that dramatic? I though the dramatic scene we see in movies are for visual effects only. Can they just knock the door and ask him to step out (with guns pointing at the doors). Who will pay the fees to fix the damages?
You go knock on the door and politely request permission to enter and you’ve allowed the subject ample time to take hostages, kill his wife and children, or kill himself.