Raids without any indictment for a crime are a way to punish people outside of the legal system. It can easily ruin lives from the actual damage to property, to paying for a lawyer, to spurious fines, social problems (ie, couldn't make it to work, couldn't pick up kids, landlord kicks you out, etc), and emotional damage from the physical attacks and threats to life from people pointing firearms at you and your family. It is a tool systematically in use by nearly all police departments and used constantly by the FBI.<p>There should be consequences like job loss for police and agents and judges when their raids are not correlated with any accusation of a crime (ie, indictment).
Police were faced with a choice. They could have kindly waited a few moments for a woman to clothe herself or they could drag her out to the street (in a state of undress that women can be arrested for) like she was.<p>They chose the most cop-like thing to do. Because they could.<p><i>This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair</i> – <i>while arresting none of them.</i><p><i>Officers led her to a squad car, where she remained for “what seemed like hours”</i> – <i>while officers came in and out of the car, her top uncovered the whole time.</i><p><i>One took photos of her, insisting, “it’s only of your face”.</i><p><i>After some time, she was released.</i><p>Please show me the law, manual, protocol, training, regulation or fusion center directive that says dragging a topless woman out of her home - to kept available for hours for male police to observe and photograph - is an appropriate response to anything.