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No, they wouldn't call you because you broke the law. That'd be ridiculous. That isn't in procedure. Should they have knocked? Probably. But still. C'mon.
Why would that be ridiculous exactly?
We aren't talking about drug dealers here. No one was going to take that deer and use it to kill anyone. The shelter wasnt' filled with religious fanatics who were likely to do suicide attacks to keep one baby deer.
In short why the fuck should enforcing the law mean throwing common sense out of the window?Not all crimes are comparable. Not all crimes are equally serious. Not every reaction of the cops is ok just because it was the cops.
I cant' be the only to notice that despite all the resources used for the raid, no one was actually charged with a crime. So even the police didn't think this was a serious offense and they were the ones sending in a swat team and spying on them before hand.
The problem is this wasn't just over reaction here. It wasn't just "
hey these particular cops were crazy in this one specific instance" This is part of a larger pattern of cops using swat teams for minor offenses or by mistake and the excuse is always the same.
The law is the law.I hate to bring this up but that's the kind of thinking authoritarians use to excuse abuses in power. Whenever that excuse comes up we should look at it really hard. That's where the outrage is coming from, that this sort of thing seems to be becoming more and more common. You can't dismiss the outrage if you don't understand why it' s there.
Yes they should have called. They should not have escalated the situation. At the least someone in the police force should have mentioned that this would reinforce the perception of cops as jack booted thugs and open the dept to charges of misusing tax payer monies.
Oh on a side note.. when someone stole my plates and used them while stealing gas in Arnold Missouri, the Arnold cops actually DID call me to question me if I was the one who stole the gas. I explained my plates had been stolen, my car was totally different make/model from the one they said had fled the gas station and somehow 13 law officers did not have to show up to corral me at work or erase pictures off my phone while they searched for the car.
So yeah.. apparently cops do know how to use the phone and there's nothing in procedure that stops them from doing so.