Via Q And O, I came across this “Police Gone Wild” gem, from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
A SWAT team from the Milwaukee Police Department burst into Denise Berndsen’s apartment and turned the place upside down looking for evidence of child porn.
Oops. The man they were targeting had moved out five weeks earlier.
Instead they roughed up Berndsen, who had returned home from back surgery that day, her 74-year-old father, and a man she had just started dating and who for a few terrifying minutes wondered what he got himself into.[...]
She said the doors were damaged by the police, and she has been unable to get the landlord to secure them. A doctor has told her she is suffering from a stress disorder since this ordeal, she said, and she’s not sure she can bear to stay at the apartment any longer.
Berndsen spent a few weeks trying to find a lawyer to take her case after the botched raid, but so far none has agreed to do so. Then she contacted the news media.
You’d think that if you’re going to send a bunch of armed men into a seemingly hostile situation, you’d do a little bit of intelligence-gathering to make sure that your suspect is on-site.
You’d also think that if a municipality makes this big of a goof, they’d repair and and replace the damage done in their misadventure, and make sure the victim of the mishap was suitably taken care of.