Actually today most no knock warrants are for opiods, which are mostly confined to whites, so if you are to drop the racial virtue signaling, we might get somewhere.
Linguist David Shariatmadari has written that the very act of accusing someone of virtue signalling is an act of virtue signalling in itself, and that its overuse as an
ad hominem attack during political debate has rendered it a
meaningless political buzzword.
Over the last 20 years, non-hispanic white people have made up about 65% of the population. You claim that 50% of victims of no knock raids have been white, which would mean that the other 35% of the population are the victims of half the raids.
And according Mother Jones:
"
The officers who killed Taylor wore plain clothes. Usually,
no-knock raids are carried out by trained SWAT or drug tactical teams with military-grade gear. In 2014, researchers at the ACLU studied more than 800 SWAT raids by law enforcement around the country. In total, t
hey found that 42 percent of people affected by search-warrant raids were Black, and
12 percent were Latino. Nearly two-thirds of the raids were drug searches. Taken together,
Black people and Latinos accounted for 61 percent of the people targeted by SWAT drug raids. And
SWAT teams found contraband in only about a third of these cases, meaning that many innocent people were raided unnecessarily."
The Times piece you linked to bolsters every point made here against the tactics used by police in the Taylor case and hundreds of others every year in the U.S. You must not have read it.
Per the title:
"Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood
Using SWAT officers to storm into homes to execute search warrants has led time
and again to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries and costly legal settlements."
Reasons why the police screw up are outlined in the same Times article:
Inadequate Judicial Scrutiny
Wrong Addresses
Failure to Knock
Lack of Monitoring
Because fewer than a third of tactical teams use body cameras, the police version of events like the killing of Eric John Senegal is often the only one.
An unidentified, out of uniform, group claiming to be the police break down my door in the middle of the night, I'd shoot at them too if I had a gun.
