No-Knock Raids
No-knock raids, assault weapons and armored cars: America’s police use paramilitary tactics too often
First published in the print edition of The Economist March 22nd 2014
EARLY one morning a team of heavily armed police officers burst into the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer in Los Angeles county. What happened next is unclear. The officer who shot Mr Mallory six times with a submachine gun says he was acting in self-defence—