Limiting no-knock warrants is not enough. The Breonna Taylor tragedy leaves no doubt.
The Editorial Board
Opinion: Police have had decades to use no-knock warrants safely, and they’ve failed too often. Weak changes only masquerade as real protection.
Long before Breonna Taylor’s death in a botched drug raid last year ignited a national debate over the deadly practice of using no-knock warrants, plenty of innocent people had already been killed during these reckless police maneuvers.
No-knock warrants, which allow police to break down doors without knocking or identifying themselves, are especially dangerous to civilians: At least 31 were killed from 2010 through 2016. But they also can be deadly for police, eight of whom were killed during the same period.