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August 23, 2015

In Worcester, Massachusetts, it was a police raid at the wrong address, the sort of thing we've seen lots of times. There was the usual police behavior - verbally abusing the naked female resident of the apartment while pointing guns at her...and her daughters.

"District Attorney Joseph Early said that state police acted on the 'best intelligence' available." A person as educated as a District Attorney must be should know that best intelligence does not necessarily mean good intelligence. They were acting on information from a confidential informant.

The person the police were seeking did used to live in that apartment, but this innocent family had been living there since May. The apartment had been raided back in September 2014. The DA said the man they sought "had been in the dwelling days before." Neighbors said he had moved out in February 2015.

The young mother, who had been searched while still nude by a female officer who questioned the necessity of searching a nude person, said that "Before they left, one (officer) said, 'We treated you with respect.'"

But what really makes this different from the other wrong address raids is that the person sought by the police had been arrested two weeks earlier at the address he has on all of his court documents, which is not the address the cops raided.

More info here. You may also note that they swore at every innocent person they encountered, including a neighbor who looked out his door to find out what all the noise was about.

I wonder what that "confidential informant" thinks of this. Maybe he's laughing to himself.

Filed under Public Safety | permalink | August 23, 2015 at 06:43 PM

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