Justice Department rescinds Biden-era 'no-knock' warrant policy
Source: MS NOW
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has rescinded the Biden Justice Department�s policy that tightly restricted when law enforcement agents executing a search could take the exceptional step of bursting into a home without knocking first.
The 2021 policy required that agents only use �no-knock� entries when they had good reason to believe knocking could put them or others in imminent danger of physical harm. Top supervisors and the U.S. attorney in the area had to approve �no-knock� entries for government searches that didn�t meet that requirement.
A DOJ memo, which was obtained by MS NOW, signed by Blanche and issued to top supervisors and U.S. attorneys on Monday states �no-knock� entries are now permissible for a much broader set of searches, including not just when law enforcement fear safety risks, but also when there is a risk that evidence could be destroyed. Blanche said he was eliminating unnecessary restrictions.....
�This is a step backwards for policing � rather than forward � when law enforcement has often prided itself on embracing best practices,� Gupta told MS NOW.
Gupta said she was concerned with the about-face on searches of homes in the wake of how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have conducted their immigration raids recently in Minnesota, Chicago and elsewhere.
�It�s particularly significant given the ICE tactics we�re seeing in the streets � so counter to the way policing has evolved and improved over the last several years,� she said.
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Isn’t that, like… ALWAYS something they could argue, to get their no-knock warrant approved by a judge?
