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On January 28, 2019, in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston, [1] Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house, killing the two homeowners, a husband and wife: Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. [2] They were aged 59 and 58, respectively. [3] Five HPD officers sustained injuries. [1]
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The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. [18] In 2010, Kraska estimated 60,000–70,000 no-knock or quick-knock raids were conducted by local police annually, the majority of which were looking for marijuana. [1]
A former Houston police officer who led a 2019 deadly drug raid that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit and resulted in ...
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This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
No one knows how often the Austin Police Department uses no-knock warrants or what comes out of these raids, because APD doesn't keep data on them.
Marvin Louis Guy (born October 27, 1964) is an American man who was convicted of murder in the death of Bell County, Texas police officer Charles Dinwiddie. In 2014, Dinwiddie died after a no-knock raid had been executed on Guy's house after gunfire erupted, including Guy shooting, stating that he believed the policemen were intruders.