Outlaw no-knock warrants - they are a dangerous and illegal law enforcement practice

Issuing a no-knock warrant is an unfortunately growing practice used by law enforcement agencies. The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Raids that lead to deaths of innocent people are increasingly common; since the early 1980s, 40 bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. Most of these are conducted at a time of the evening/early morning where the resident would reasonably assume they are in the midst of a home invasion. This act should be deemed unconstitutional and illegal.