Opinion: Internal memo suggests Little Rock police serve every search warrant with a SWAT team
window.havePowaBoot=true; By Radley Balko Radley Balko Opinion writer focusing on civil liberties, the drug war and the criminal-justice system Email Bio Follow Opinion writer February 26 at 11:01 AM Last fall, I published an investigation into the way the Little Rock Police Department has been serving its drug warrants.
team execute all search warrants.” All search warrants. I emailed Little Rock city attorney Tom Carpenter on Monday about this alleged mandate, and asked if this is still LRPD policy, and have not received an answer to that question. It’s at least possible that the sergeant who wrote the report made a mistake. Perhaps he misstated the policy, or wrote “search warrants” when he meant “narcotics search warrants.
teams were initially envisioned and trained to respond to volatile emergencies such as active shooters, bank robberies or terrorist incidents. During the 1980s and 1990s, they were increasingly used to serve drug warrants, to the point where surveys have shown that 70 percent to 80 percent of to serve drug warrants is, again, that illicit drugs are often associated with violence. There are plenty of counterarguments to that, but at least they’re making the claim that this sort of force is proportional to the threat faced by law enforcement. But over the past decade or so, we have seen even more
teams sent for code enforcement and regulatory inspections. If Little Rock is actually serving all search warrants with a
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