OK to shoot police officers in Indiana?

So a cop can't break your door down, handcuff you, then search your home ? Homeowners are actually allowed to protect their property ?

The O/P would be less of a hack job if it was titled something like....

"It's Now Legal to Shoot police in Indiana for Unlawfully Entering Your Home"

 

From the article...

So far, this article is short on details...but Indiana is batting 1,000.

The only obvious misrepresentation, was on the part of the no-doubt perfectly straight-forward cop:

Whose intelligence is he insulting?? There is no way whatsoever, that the Indiana law permits this.....this cop is either an idiot....or he is intentionally mis-representing the content of the new law. It's not like Indiana just established a 3 month hunting season on police.

When I was a child, my mother impressed upon me the notion that honest men have nothing to fear from the law.....ditto for cops.

 

I have never had a police officer break into my house or assault me. That doesn't mean they have all been boy scouts, but the one thing I do in dealing with the police is treat them with respect regardless of their attitude. If they were to overstep their authority toward me, I would get an attorney and see them in court. But, like I say, in my experience I have found that if I don't have an attitude, they don't either.

 

I think that this is a true statement.

Is the OP author's concern here based on his personal experience in that area as a police officer?

 

Americans have long maintained that a man's home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.

These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they're sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.

This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform.


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If you crash through my door wearing a black mask and carrying a German submachine expect resistance. Better to avoid all that. Get a warrant and knock on the door dressed like a cop instead of John J. Rambo. Oh yeah and knock on the right door.

 

The police need to get it right or they could end up dead and the shooter would be within their rights...at least in Indiana.