Mcgyver where did you come up with this?
It is disturbing to read the post by LEOs & Former LEOs, that portray a belief that if they MURDER you while you are defending your self against their illegal actions it is an accepted out come to MURDER you. This is the problem, too many Police depts have adopted a Military war like view of how to deal with innocent civilians that no longer includes To Protect & Serve. In this day & time with technology there is never any Excuse for Murdering an innocent family including their pets in their own home by mistake or other wise.
I have not read any post or stated myself that is accepted for anyone to come and murder you. The simple fact is if a legal warrant is served in a tactical manner on your home and you raise a firearm you will probably be shot. If it is a gang of thieves dressed as cops and you do nothing you may be injured or killed, it is a truly a no win situation either way. I do not know an answer for as long as there are people intent on committing crimes LE has a duty to react to it.
LE cannot water down tactics and simply knock on a door and wait for the guy to answer. The criminal element has dictated the LE response not the other way around.
You cannot stop doing something just because the criminal element copy it. In my home state they had the blue light rapist. He had a blue light on the dash and would make a traffic stop on a female and then sexually assault her. They could not stop making traffic stops because of it. They did implement procedures where lone females when in doubt would wait to stop at a public area without penalty but guess what the next thing you know you have some 6'4 guy who flees from an officer and when he was stopped his first words were "I wasn't fleeing I thought it was the blue light rapist and I was trying to get to a public place".
If your Assailant/s aren't punished for Murdering you in your home that in itself means it is accepted practice. It isn't a legal warrant just because people LIE or make a mistake when they swear their oath to a judge since we are talking about Innocent people defending against Professionally Trained Hit Teams of unknown origin at the time as far as the victims are concerned. Innocent Law abiding people never expect a TACTICAL HIT TEAM to enter their house or didn't used to. I would never try to hurt anyone that wasn't trying to hurt me first. You notice I said anyone not just LEOs because I value all innocent life.
If it was about safety with traffic stops we wouldn't even have unmarked cruisers but it is in reality more about $$$$s. As for stopping SORRY I am a 6' tall Martial Arts trained man but if I don't know the car pulling me over is a real LEO I will not just pull over either without verification. What I will do is let the Alleged LEO know I see them & hopefully they will understand since they don't even look like a LEO & they should know it since anyone can purchase Lights.
But the flip side of that is that to the LEOs serving the warrant there is no difference between you and the heavily armed drug dealer. They are not serving warrants to get their jollies. Most of the officers I know hate warrant service. Especially high risk warrants. They get paid just as much to write a handicap parking violation ticket as they do to kick a door in. They are much more likely to get killed or crippled on a warrant service than they are writing a parking ticket. Not much upside for them and a whole lot of potential downside.
Now unless you believe they are going around and hitting incorrect locations intentionally I assume you would agree that the officers that mistakenly hit a house are reasonable in their belief (based on the information they have at the time) that someone in that house is potentially dangerous or might be inclined to destroy evidence which is why they are forcing entry. They are there as a result of an
investigation and a judicial process that is conducted by people that do these things for a living.
So, I ask you, based on that reasonable belief if you present armed resistance to the officers serving a warrant at your house how should they react? And why is your belief that they are criminals coming through your door any more reasonable than their belief that you are a criminal?
Yes there is a BIG Difference innocent people never signed up for the danger & aren't paid for it either & in this scenario are the only innocent victims. As a LEO you knew the risk or should have before you took the oath same as Fireman, Soldiers etc...
Also in this scenario the only acceptable injury or loss of life is that of the intruder/s whoever it is IMO. Everyone keeps forgetting we are talking about when LEOs make a mistake & forcibly enter an innocent persons home with either LIEs, bad intel, incompetence etc etc... doesn't matter which cover up excuse is used. In this situation you are in all reality acting as a Hit Squad with full intent to do serious harm to the occupants if they don't just lay down even though you have startled them. Criminals are always prepared to deal with a possible attack innocent people aren't as prepared for possible good guys wanting to do them harm in their home.
I really hope I never have to deal with this scenario but I can say if I live there is an old saying “An EYE for an EYE”.
As for my belief you are a Criminal if you are trying to bust in, it isn't a belief it is a fact if I am a law abiding person in my home no matter the excuse you are a Criminal IMO whatever the outcome.
My suggestion to all is use technology against them the same way recorders are proving many times the good guys aren't really the good guys all the time. Our best chance is to have beefed up security in place to give us a fighting chance against both Good (Unfortunately) & Bad Guys & Im not just talking about weapons alone. As for this belief you will 100% lose based on training & numbers I have never been one to give up although I am a 100% Pessimist by nature so I always plan for the worst case Scenario.
In a Nut Shell no innocent victim shouldn't be subject to any type of charges if they committed no crime in the first place even if a LEO is injured or worse. In this scenario they should have 100% Immunity for defending their Family & Home. I also know this will never happen because it would mean admitting there is a problem with Abuse of Powers Regarding Warrants.
