Across the United States officials estimate that there are 20,000 no-knock warrants executed every year. A no-knock warrant gives police the right to enter a home and make searches without knocking or identifying themselves in pursuit of a suspect.
On television, viewers watch cops burst into a house yelling and screaming with weapons pointed in pursuit of suspects. It’s entertainment.
However, when nearly two dozen Monroe Police Detectives executed a reported “no-knock” warrant on the residents of a home on Monroe’s Southside, it was not entertainment. It was a nightmare.
Police were pursuing a tip they received that a murder suspect in last month’s Parkview Apartments shootings was living in the home with a re…
