Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 14, 2008

The proliferation of no-knock police raids does nothing to improve the safety of law-abiding citizens. But it is making matters easier for criminals.

In early February, two men identifying themselves as narcotics agents raided a home in Gadsen, Alabama, confiscating two guns and seizing 40 pain pills. When residents called the police the following day, they learned that the men were robbers posing as police and carefully mimicking the increasingly common tactics used in no-knock raids.

Radley Balko, an analyst for the Cato Institute, has documented ?dozens of examples of crooks pretending to be cops? in order to gain access to the homes of their victims.

The Gadsen police told citizens to ?contact a local police department? if they doubt the identity of someone claiming to be an officer. But it's difficult to do this when the armed men in question have forced their way into your home and are holding you at gunpoint.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.