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RE: How the War on Drugs is Fundamentally Flawed
I have seen several sources significantly lower at 20000 which I still believe is inflated.
There is a lot of manipulation of data on both sides of this debate. As someone on the LE side, who has done exactly one no knock in over thirty years on the job, I find those numbers to be a bit difficult to swallow.
I'll admit that you have me wondering - and I am trying to find some hard data, not just estimates of such. No luck just yet.
Thank you anyway for raising a flag on the figure.
Greetings @coldsteem.
So far this article is the best source that I've come across.
"There has been more than a 1,400% increase in the total number of police paramilitary deployments, or callouts, between 1980 and 2000. Today, an estimated 45,000 SWAT-team deployments are conducted yearly among those departments
surveyed;..." (pg 6)
"...more than 80% of these deployments were for proactive drug raids, specifically no-knock and quick-knock dynamic entries into private residences, searching for contraband." (pg6-7)
This does leave room for interpretation - i.e. what % of that figure is actually a "quick-knock" rather than a "no-knock" - and the information seems to be based upon the surveying of "departments" - but I think that there is enough information here to strongly suggest that there is at least a seed of truth and that the degree of conflation, if any, is likely modest.
Quick knock makes more sense. It is not the same thing. I think we have some agreement in here on some points and some things we are not likely to agree with. But that's all good.
Quite agreed. Disagreements are where the greatest potential for advancement and/ or learning exists - even if the disagreement should remain.
Are there any other points of disagreement besids the no-knock arrests figure?