Under the new policy, "No police officer, or any public safety official acting under the authority of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, shall seek, execute, or participate in the execution of a no-knock search warrant at any location within the boundaries of the City of St. Louis, Missouri." The order also prohibits St. Louis police from asking law enforcement agents outside of the city to execute no-knock warrants on their behalf.
caused in the first place? i want to talk specifically, of course, about this ban on no-knock warrants taking effect. what else needs to happen? i know you think it s not enough. certainly not enough. certainly, the no-knock warrants should stop, but think you ve got to have criminal prosecution. aside from that, i think you need to redo the whole way that we deal with pursuing people in the first place. how do we keep having police going in at the people that are the wrong people? isn t it very haunting that both breonna taylor and the case here that we re talking about with amir locke, both of them were dead off a mistaken police intervention. neither one of them were the subjects of what they were after. there s something wrong in the