A judge has ruled Hamilton Police Service (HPS) violated a woman’s Charter rights with “cavalier disregard” after smashing their way into her downtown apartment home to look for drugs.

In Hamilton, Goodman said the raids are “verging on becoming a systemic problem” after HPS officers told him when they execute search warrants, no-knock raids are used over 90 per cent of the time.

  • Rentlar
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    9 months ago

    Some officers cited the “usual” concern for loss of evidence and told Goodman HPS used no-knock raids “90 per cent of the time – and maybe even more often than that.”

    “Violating people’s Charter rights because we’re used to doing that regularly” is not a good excuse.

    Perhaps I’d have to be a police officer to be able to say “I’m not paying you back because I don’t pay 90% or more of my bills. One of those invoices could have been fraudulent, you know.”