Another thoughtful post on Notes from the Handbasket:
When we complain about the chaos and dangers of SWAT-served search warrants or home invasion-style served warrants, we often hear that the person who broke the law is the one to blame for a family’s pain, not the cops who invade homes. A Georgia family would love to hear those people make sense of what happened to their 19-month-old boy.
Jacob Sullum writes about a 3 a.m. drug raid when a flash-bang grenade was thrown into a child’s playpen, critically injuring the toddler. The police said they had no idea there were children in the home or they would not have used the grenade. Read the full post.