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Broken Doors

By: The Washington Post
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  • With a typical search warrant, police are supposed to knock and announce themselves. But with no-knock warrants, police can force their way into people’s homes without warning. This six-part investigative podcast from The Washington Post sheds light on how easy it is to plan, obtain and execute no-knock warrants — one of the most intrusive and dangerous police tactics. We explore the consequences when these warrants become the rule, rather than the exception. Hosted by investigative reporters Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca, “Broken Doors” is about how no-knock warrants are deployed in the American justice system — and what happens when accountability is flawed at every level.
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  • Introducing "Broken Doors"
    Mar 24 2022

    No-knock warrants allow police to force their way into people’s homes without warning. What happens when this aggressive police tactic becomes the rule, rather than the exception? 


    "Broken Doors" is a new investigative podcast series about how no-knock warrants are deployed in the American justice system - and the consequences for communities when accountability is flawed at every level. Hosted by Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca.

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    3 mins
  • Episode 1: "That's what you get"
    Apr 6 2022

    Sheriff’s deputies burst through the front door of a 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.


    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 execute a no-knock warrant in Monroe County.

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    42 mins
  • Episode 2: "Why y'all had to go in that way?"
    Apr 6 2022

    Around 1 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2015, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office hurled a battering ram into the home of Ricky Keeton to carry out a no-knock search warrant. After the raid turned deadly, Ricky’s family confronted the sheriff — and began secretly recording. 

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    1 hr and 13 mins

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Disappointing

For an investigative journalist from The Washington Post, this was rather disappointing. This is what I call pussyfooting-journalism. The journalist was frustratingly timid in her interview with that dingleberry sheriff. Why not confront him with what she already had and knew? Why cater to his blatant lies and giggle when he behaves inappropriately (i.e., trying to grab her notes)? I wish the New York Times had this story instead. They would have run marathons with it.

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