Botched no-knock raids prompt calls to limit police tactic
The Fifth Estate27 days ago
2:01
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants.2:01
Police forces across Canada are conducting hundreds of no-knock raids each year to execute search warrants despite growing concern about the trampling of charter rights, an investigation by CBC's
The Fifth Estate has found.
These raids, also called dynamic entries, involve heavily armed police barging into a home unannounced. Stun grenades that explode at ear-splitting decibels are often used.
Watch "When police don't knock" on
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