I disagree with doing away with "no-knock" warrants.  Scenario A: A warrant is issued for a violent thug known for brutal acts of violence against the public. Police get said warrant and are ordered to apprehend. Thug is known to have a crew with him just about at all times. Thug is also known to be a "squirter." Someone who has slipped away from warrants being served in the past. Thug is also known to be armed. Thug is observed to be at a trap house at time of warrants issue, so the cops to decide to move quickly and apprehend at the house. The warrant is for a "knock" serve. SWAT goes in and announce their intentions, crew and thug opens fire, killing/wounding multiple officers before squirting out the back and getting away before SWAT has a chance to recover. Manhunt for days ends in multiple civilians wounded/killed, multiple cops wounded/killed, $100K+ in damages and man-hours spent searching, whole neighborhoods locked down for hours, if not days. Thug ultimately dies with 65  1ffa   bullets in him from 4 responding agencies. Months long inquiry into use of force, etc etc, which also had the added consequence of putting multiple officers from those jurisdictions on paid admin leave for weeks until investigation concludes the obvious: thug deserved it. Or, Scenario B: Same as above, except that at the time the warrant is issued, because thug is known squirter and has a violent past, the judge decides to go with the SWAT teams recommendation that it be a "no knock" serve. When the SWAT team arrives to serve the warrant later that day, they rush in unannounced, surprise everyone with flash bangs, secure the perimeter and interior BEFORE anyone inside has a decent chance to react, and the thug, his crew, the innocents inside, and whatever evidence there is, is preserved in near pristeen condition, NO ONE is killed/wounded, and the thug goes on to prison wih a life sentence without parole. Which would you prefer? I've personally seen both scenarios play out in my life.  Scenario A happened here in Ctrl FL when the City of DeLand and the Volusia County Sheriff's Dept tried to serve a warrant on a suspected cop killer. Dude was eventually tracked down to Ocala, and was later killed in the Ocala Natl Forest. Scenario B happened right down the street from me in Miami when I was a kid. My Aunt was the SWAT Cmdr for Metro-Dadw Sheriff's back then. Our street was cordoned off for a maximum of 3 hrs while they did their thing, COMPLETELY unannounced.  You would expect that shit in Miami back in the 80's, because it happened all the time. BOTH scenarios played out almost daily. And you get irritated by the senseless loss of life all around you. And as a kid, I can assure you, it fucks your head up. Scenario A started in a small town in Volusia County, relatively unknown outside Ctrl FL. You think it can't happen because the town is small, the people are mostly nice, and the ones that aren't stick to themselves and don't fuck with people outside their hoods. That all changed the day this played out. The leaders back then were worried it would upset race relations if the cops were to go in unannounced, like it would look like some gestapo tactic.  I can tell you now, that when both those agencies serve warrants on known violent criminals like the guy in Scenario A, it's always unannounced, and you never hear about it because no one ever gets killed. Plain and simple. So, dony fall into that fucking LIBERAL TRAP. It's for your own protection. And trust me when I say, it fucking works when you ambush these assholes rather than announce yourself and give them time to respond.