Last year, Mpls police announced a new policy on no-knock warrants. Since then, they've asked for 90

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https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2021/09/last-year-minneapolis-police-announced-a-new-policy-on-no-knock-warrants-since-then-theyve-asked-for-90-of-them/

In November 2020, Minneapolis police announced a new set of restrictions on the controversial practice of no-knock search warrants, one of several policy changes made in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

At the time, the department said it had been carrying out roughly 139 no-knock warrants a year, and wanted new guidelines for a tactic that has drawn nationwide scrutiny after Louisville, Ky., police shot and killed Breonna Taylor in a botched raid earlier that year. While Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said the regulations were only making existing “best practices” into official standards, some in the city took the move as a major shift away from no-knock search warrants.

Almost a year later, however, that doesn’t appear to be the case. A department spokesman said Aug. 20 that city officers obtained 90 no-knock search warrants from courts since November of 2020.

Even though city officials contend their policy has made no-knock warrants safer — and not all of those warrants were necessarily carried out — critics of the practice have expressed surprise at the figures, and called for more information on the approved warrants.

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1. Sounds like a "how dare someone try to take my toy away" response. Ugh. nt