Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension released its first annual report on no-knock search warrants.
The reporting became state law in September.
Since the law took effect in September, of 132 no-knock warrants requested, three were denied by the courts and 105 were carried out by law enforcement. In 87 of those cases, evidence being sought was located.
The law also requires law enforcement to report any injuries or deaths during no-knock operations, but there are none in the report.
The new law was prompted by last February’s fatal shooting of 22-year-old Amir Locke by a Minneapolis officer during a no-knock SWAT operation at a downtown Minneapolis apartment across the street from Orchestra Hall.
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