Why Aren Police Videotaping SWAT Raids?
NorthJersey.com has an impressive piece on the overuse of SWAT teams to conduct routine drug raids in New Jersey. It’s a thorough and informative discussion that includes law-enforcement perspectives as well as those of innocent citizens who’ve been targeted. There’s a lot of revealing stuff here: “The reporting back is on a case-by-case basis,” said Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Dante Mongiardo. “Nobody is compiling any six-month or yearly reports saying of the 100 (warrants) that we approved, drugs were found in 98 percent of them.” Capt. Robert Prause, commander of the Prosecutor’s Office narcotics task force, stresses that officers are “not just randomly picking the house.” “A very large percentage of the time, we do find the contraband we’re looking for,” he said. So they don’t keep track, but if they did, the numbers would be impressive according to them. I think it’s time for somebody to actually start compiling “six-month or yearly reports saying of the 100 (warrants) that
