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SWAT Raids are Out of Control​

Jul 15, 2024

Imagine a SWAT team raids a house—battering doors, breaking windows, and coating everything inside with tear gas residue. Now imagine the SWAT team had the wrong address. Who do think would pay for the damage? If you said insurance, you’re probably wrong. If you said the city, you’re probably also wrong.

Today, IJ attorneys Jeff Redfern and Dylan Moore talk with us about this nightmare situation facing homeowners across America – and how the Institute for Justice is fighting to change it.


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Vicki Baker SWAT Case: https://ij.org/case/texas-swat-destru...
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VICTORY: Judge Rules that Woman is Entitled to Damages Under Texas Constitution After SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home While Pursuing Fugitive - Institute for Justice

SHERMAN, Texas—Today, a federal judge ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages, plus interest, after a SWAT team destroyed her McKinney, Texas, […]
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Justices take up case on right to sue over mistaken SWAT raid

The Supreme Court will weigh in on whether a Georgia family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team can sue the federal government for the error.
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Supreme Court allows family’s suit against government for “wrong house” raid to continue

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a family’s lawsuit against the federal government to move forward. With the lawsuit, the family seeks to hold the government liable […]
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Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.​

Aug 25, 2025
In this episode, we bring you the disturbing story of St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, whose lies led to the wrongful prosecution of dozens of people—and put an innocent teenage refugee in jail for two years. Will she ever be held accountable?
Today we’re joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, one of the leaders of IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability.
We’re discussing Patrick’s lawsuit against Officer Weyker, how courts have systematically closed doors to government accountability, and how IJ is trying to wrench those doors back open.

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SWAT Team Arrives 5 Years Too Late, Causes 20K Worth of Damage, Then Refuses to Pay​

Aug 26, 2025 #lawenforcement #bodycam #lawyer
Kim received an alert on her phone that someone was at her front door. To her surprise, it was a SWAT team with their armored vehicle, about to break down her front door and ransack her home. Eventually, detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department realized they had arrived at least 5 years too late to find their suspect. Leaving behind over 20 grand worth of damage to Kim's home, they offered no explanation, no apology, and refused to pay for the damage they caused.
Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025...
Las Vegas Metro PD: https://www.lvmpd.com/home


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South Bend Mom’s Fight for Compensation After Police Raid Moves Forward - Institute for Justice

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Amy Hadley’s home in South Bend was raided by a police SWAT team in June 2022. Her home still bears the scars of […]
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South Bend Mom Will Keep Fighting for Compensation after Wrong House Raid - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va.—Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal constitution does not require the government to compensate […]
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A Grandma's Retaliatory Arrest: IJ Takes Her Fight to the Supreme Court​

Mar 8, 2024

Americans have a long tradition of running for office with the goal of improving their local communities. After a fulfilling career in communications, Sylvia Gonzalez did just that. She knocked on the doors of 500 residents in Castle Hills, Texas, and squeezed out a win, beating a well-connected and powerful incumbent.

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After her election, Sylvia got right to work. Acting on her campaign promise, she helped spearhead a citizens’ petition advocating for the removal of Castle Hills’ city manager Ryan Rapelye. The petition was a non-binding vote of no confidence in Rapelye, who had come under criticism for mistreating his employees and failing to address citizens’ concerns, such as fixing their streets.

The petition did not sit well with Castle Hills’ incumbents, whose interests were well-represented by the city manager. Within weeks of winning her election, the harassment began. First, the city attorney, who was aligned with the mayor and the city manager, claimed Sylvia wasn’t properly sworn in and replaced her on the city council with the woman she’d just beaten. When a judge reinstated Sylvia, the city officials didn’t give up.

In fact, that was only the beginning. In the midst of their attempt to unseat her, the mayor and police chief used bogus charges and a rarely-used law to have Sylvia arrested, booked, and thrown in jail—but she had done nothing wrong. Once the county prosecutor got involved, he dropped the case against her.

Finally, after beating back the city twice, a group of citizens aligned with the mayor filed a lawsuit claiming Sylvia was incompetent. Sylvia stood her ground and won—but by then the damage had been done. Sylvia’s mugshot had been splashed across the news and her reputation dragged through the mud. Exhausted—with tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills—she stopped the fight to reclaim her seat.

The city’s retaliation clearly violates Sylvia’s First Amendment rights. If America’s democracy means anything at all, it means that a city can’t arrest its residents for speaking out against a city manager. The fundamental right of political speech is high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values and the courts exist to ensure that it is protected.

On September 29, 2020, Sylvia partnered with the Institute for Justice to file a federal lawsuit against Castle Hills to vindicate her First Amendment rights and hold the city officials accountable. On October 13, 2023, after a prolonged fight with the government over qualified immunity, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to Sylvia to review whether the Fifth Circuit correctly sided with the Castle Hills officials on that issue.


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SCOTUS: Post in thread 'Gonzalez v. Trevino - qualified immunity over First Amendment retaliation'

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Final Victory: Castle Hills Vote Confirms Sylvia Gonzalez’s Win Against Retaliation - Institute for Justice

Last night, the Castle Hills, Texas, City Council voted to ratify a settlement agreement that brings to an end the years-long lawsuit filed by former […]
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Well I'll tell you one thing or two based on my own experiences. First off if your expecting 100% perfection your dealing with the wrong simian. I got news for you, cops make mistakes. And I think when you have a bunch of guys with cop hair cuts, cop guns, cop dogs, talking like cops, its pretty safe to assume they are actually cops and maybe you should go along with the program and then get in line to be paid after as long as they don't find anything. Most raids that go bad are based on bad INTEL from bad sources or just getting beat in the flush race to the toilet with the BGs.

Anyway I just love when these gangsters with 5 pages of priors, which we can't release, get on CNN and act like Mother Theresa who just got screwed over. Its precious is what it is.

I never liked raids. Mostly I did them because they wanted a uniform going in first because they prefer getting shot last. Well I never wanted to get shot and certainly not first om some narco's, or tac teams, drug raid. I dont give a shit if some idiot is using drugs and I never much believed in this so called drug war in the first place. 99% of the drug pinches were for bullshit amounts on kids who were bit player's in the game. And thats what the system turned it into, a "game". It wasn't us who turned it into one even tho we got the blame.

The system wanted numbers to justify their budgets and positions.
 
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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.​

Aug 25, 2025
In this episode, we bring you the disturbing story of St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, whose lies led to the wrongful prosecution of dozens of people—and put an innocent teenage refugee in jail for two years. Will she ever be held accountable?
Today we’re joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, one of the leaders of IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability.
We’re discussing Patrick’s lawsuit against Officer Weyker, how courts have systematically closed doors to government accountability, and how IJ is trying to wrench those doors back open.

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- Hamdi’s Case Page: https://ij.org/case/task-force-immuni...
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Minnesota cop who fabricated a sex-trafficking ring won't be held accountable

The officer made up information and lied multiple times under oath but the government says she has federal immunity.
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Minnesota killings traced all the way to Supreme Court by legal experts​


A legal expert described Monday how the Supreme Court's previous rulings have led to why ICE agents have acted as they have acted "under the made-up banner of 'absolute immunity'" in the wake of the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's Amicus podcast, in a conversation with Alex Reinert, the Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at Cardozo School of Law, discussed how...
 
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When the Supreme Court abets lawlessness

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on […]
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"Ending Qualified Immunity Will Improve Policing"​

Feb 10, 2026
What can we do to bring accountability to policing for the sake of both the public and police officers themselves? Today, we’re talking with special guest Jeff Wenniger, a retired LAPD Lieutenant who spent more than 30 years in law enforcement and is now an advocate for how to rethink law enforcement—grounded in trust, integrity, and true community partnership.
We’re also joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, who leads IJ’s efforts to dismantle the legal doctrines that block accountability for police officers and other officials.
Today we talk with Jeff and Patrick about why policing needs more accountability, what cops really think about qualified immunity, and how we can make policing better for everyone.


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Court Rules North Hollywood Business Owner Not Entitled to Compensation After SWAT Team Destroyed Shop; Owner Will Appeal Decision​


LOS ANGELES—On Monday, the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled the owner of a North Hollywood print shop is not entitled to compensation after a SWAT team destroyed his business while pursuing a fugitive. NoHo Printing and Graphics owner Carlos Pena, represented by the Institute for Justice (IJ), will appeal the decision.

“The court recognized that the result was unfair, but it thought that the police are exempt from the Fifth Amendment,” said IJ Attorney Jeffrey Redfern. “But for more than 100 years, the Supreme Court has said that the police power is not exempt from just compensation under the Fifth Amendment. We look forward to bringing our arguments to the Court of Appeals.”

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Court Rules North Hollywood Business Owner Not Entitled to Compensation After SWAT Team Destroyed Shop; Owner Will Appeal Decision - Institute for Justice

LOS ANGELES—On Monday, the United States District Court for the Central District of California ruled the owner of a North Hollywood print shop is not […]
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NoHo Print Shop Owner Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case Seeking Compensation After SWAT Team Destroyed Shop - Institute for Justice

WASHINGTON—Today, a Los Angeles small business owner filed a petition asking the United States Supreme Court to hear his case seeking compensation after a SWAT team destroyed […]
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25 Investigates report sheds new light on growing cost of alleged Mass. State Police misconduct

May 1, 2026
Investigative reporter Ted Daniel breaks down what his team uncovered after reviewing dozens of lawsuits — including cases in which the state police internally ruled that a trooper acted inappropriately, yet taxpayers are still paying for the legal defense and potential settlements. The investigation examines indemnification, qualified immunity, and why public dollars continue to fund these cases.
Find his full report at Boston25News.com: https://www.boston25news.com/news/loc...


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SWAT Team Arrives 5 Years Too Late, Causes 20K Worth of Damage, Then Refuses to Pay​

Aug 26, 2025 #lawenforcement #bodycam #lawyer
Kim received an alert on her phone that someone was at her front door. To her surprise, it was a SWAT team with their armored vehicle, about to break down her front door and ransack her home. Eventually, detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department realized they had arrived at least 5 years too late to find their suspect. Leaving behind over 20 grand worth of damage to Kim's home, they offered no explanation, no apology, and refused to pay for the damage they caused.
Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025...
Las Vegas Metro PD: https://www.lvmpd.com/home


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This is an end result.

Police cannot - by themselves - stop crime. There are not enough police, in any society, to force compliance with law. And who would police the police? The obvious answer to that problem, is Haiti's Tonton Macoutes - the brigands who served (serve still?) as law enforcement. They were paid nothing because the Duvaliers had nothing to pay them with - Haitian money was worthless even in Haiti. So they had permission to loot; and the whole nation was their source of pay and plunder.

So. In a functioning society, police are not going to micromanage the populace. It will be token enforcement - limited to sudden crises and extreme cases. Homicide, public shootings, riots.

What made the law work, was PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE AND ADHERENCE to it. SOCIAL mores led to enforcement. You didn't litter, because if you did, old ladies would give you dirty looks, and a burly dock-worker might punch your teeth out. You didn't bully others at work, because if you did, you'd be quickly thrown out of the plant. Unemployed and maybe roughed up by security personnel.

Problems that "require" SWAT wagons like this, seldom got to that point. Read some of William Faulkner's short stories, to see how small-town America dealt with people who were problems. Long before anyone would call 9-1-1, neighbors would get together and run the offenders out of town, or burn them out, or flog them in public.

And no, they were not all "minorities." Another God-damned Leftist LIE that's become ingrained into our engineered culture.

But that cultural resiliance is ALL GONE now. Good thing, we've all been told.

Maybe not. Now the deviants and misfits run wild...and often kill others. And all we can do is call the po-po; and all THEY can do is THIS.

And often, these deviants and misfits call SWAT themselves, to "swat" neighbors.

Police are not the answer.

Judge Lynch had the answer.
 
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