The #BreonnaTaylor settlement reforms do not address the core police abuse of power that led to her murder. Knock vs No-Knock is of no concern if the search warrant never should have been granted at all. (Thread)
The original sin of nearly all wrongful arrests & extra-judicial killings is that probable cause is whatever the police say it is. We do not have a mechanism to force police to mind their own business unless facts support intervention.
Here is the only sentence that matters in the warrant to search Taylor’s home: “Affiant believes through training and experience, that Mr. J. Glover may be keeping narcotics and/or proceeds from the sale of narcotics at 3003 Springfield Drive #4 for safe keeping.” 
There is not one objective fact in that statement but Judge Mary Shaw did not require objective information, only that Taylor was a known associate of a drug dealer—this is how you criminalize an entire neighborhood.
And because judges don’t seem capable of assessing the value of a cop’s training and experience, the public must be able to grade this for ourselves. We should know how often warrants do not result in the named individuals or property being found.
What is Detective Jaynes’ training & experience worth if Breonna Taylor’s home contained nothing that he was searching for? Did Judge Shaw check to see how often Jaynes’ training & experience resulted in fruitless warrants? More often than most? She should know. We all should.
Here is the complete list of items that #LMPD expected to find at #BreonnaTaylor’s home but did not:
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