Episode 1, Broken Doors | “That’s what you get”

Sheriff’s deputies burst through the front door of a Mississippi man’s home as he slept. He said they pointed a gun at his head and ransacked his home in search of drugs and cash. The no-knock search warrant they used was threadbare. But that wasn’t the worst of it.

“Broken Doors” is a six-part investigative podcast about how no-knock warrants are deployed in the American justice system — and what happens when accountability is flawed at every level.

The Washington Post’s Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca started identifying unusual warrants almost from the moment they began their investigation into no-knock raids. When Jenn looked more closely at documents from a rural county in Mississippi, she got a startling view into how little it took to carry out a no-knock raid in Monroe County.

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[printedwit]

this was well done: narrative is easy to follow and the subject is, imo, relevant. i'm looking forward to the rest of this series.

[proutsneck]

Kind of astonishing that a Washington Post reporter made an entire podcast series thinking the word is 'Affadavid' and no-one thought that was an issue.

[nicholasharmon]

The worst part is half of the deputies that were doing these things are still on the force and believe In these tactics