Another Federal Law Enforcement Screw Up

I get tired of reading articles about idiot cops and idiot federal agents doing idiotic things. At least no one got shot.

‘Here we go again,'
      — Patrick Jaicomo, an attorney with the Institute for Justice

Incompetent people in government. Incompetent people in law enforcement. Homeland Security admits Oklahoma raid targeted wrong people

"I been in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time."
      — Dr. John

So ICE decided that they needed to raid a house in Oklahoma. Why? Because the people who used to live there were suspected of bad things. The key phase in that sentence is "used to." Past Tense.

“ICE was carrying out a court-authorized search warrant for a large-scale human smuggling investigation. The search warrants included the location of an address where U.S. citizens recently moved. The previous residents were the intended targets,” a representative for Homeland Security told Nexstar’s KFOR.

What do you mean they moved? Bad guys don't move to avoid the police. They stay in one place to make the jobs easier, and reduce the paperwork, for the idiots with the guns. Or so says federal law enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, also responded to KFOR’s requests for additional information this week, confirming the raid on Marisa’s house was part of that nationwide operation. They also admitted for the first time that Marisa and her family were not supposed to be targeted.

So, they did learn to read a map. Usually when I write about these kinds of things, it is because the agents raided the house across the street, or some other idiocy. But they couldn't be bothered to do any survellience to see if the people moved, because in their tiny minds, bad guys never move.

“Yesterday morning, I argued a case in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a family from Atlanta who were the victims of a wrong house raid committed by the FBI, who simply failed to check the address on the house before they sent in a SWAT team,” said Jaicomo.

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“Based on the facts as I understand them right now, there’s no question that there was a lack of due diligence,” said Jaicomo.

Police, and federal police like ICE, have a tremendous amount of power. They need to be held accountable when they screw up.

That Atlanta case, which was argued by Patrick Jaicomo, revolves around the fact that the FBI did 10s of thousands of dollars of damages to a family's home, and walked away. They were 3 doors down and across the street from the house listed on the warrant. Even though the address was on a lighted sign in the front yard, the agents - that was the FBI (Funded But Incompetent) - couldn't be stopped from opening up with multiple flash-bang grenades, and a battering ram.

At some point we are going to have to put an end to all of these SWAT raids in the name of the War on (Some) Drugs. I'm not sure why ICE thought they needed a middle of the night raid for a human trafficking case. Were they worried that the bad guys would flush people down the toilet?

And just because. "Right Place, Wrong Time" by Dr. John.