Police Refuse to Take Responsibility For Botched Drug Raid

We have already grown accustomed to disappointing explanations from law-enforcement after they kick in the doors of innocent people, terrorize families, tear apart their homes, and then insist that such things "almost never happen." It happens all the time, as we know, and the pattern is terribly, depressingly familiar. Still, the latest botched drug raid, which took place in Albany, NY on the eve of July 4th, prompted a reaction from police that is so callous and plainly dismissive that it managed to surprise even me. The point isn't that I don't believe some police officers think this way, but that I just wouldn't expect them to reveal it as shamelessly as this. Here is what Troy Police Sergeant David Dean told Albany's News10 correspondent Anya Tucker after the raid: Sgt. Dean: "We did not hit the wrong house, we hit the... [read full story]