| Please welcome today's guest host, investigative reporter Nicole Dungca. When police killed Breonna Taylor in her apartment in 2020, it was the first time that many had ever heard about no-knock warrants. Law enforcement officers are able to use these warrants to force their way into homes unannounced. These kinds of raids have become commonplace for narcotics squads across the country, even though they can lead to injuries — and deaths — for both suspects and officers. My colleague Jenn Abelson and I have been reporting on police accountability since 2020. And we were fascinated by these kinds of warrants: How were they deployed in American policing? And what did it mean for the communities of color and low-income neighborhoods that tend to experience them the most? So we started looking into cases where police shot and killed people in their own homes while they were carrying out these warrants — and we were surprised when we began finding patterns of questionable warrants. Police were able to secure warrants with barely any information or the wrong addresses. Some officers were using the tactic frequently, even though experts say they should be used sparingly. Our reporting took us all over the country — Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana — and grew into a six-part investigative podcast that looks at what happens when accountability for these warrants is flawed at every level. Earlier this week, we released the first three episodes of the podcast, where Jenn and supervising senior producer Reena Flores dove into what happened when a Mississippi sheriff's office began using no-knock warrants as the rule, rather than the exception. Over the next few weeks, we'll release more content that explores everything from the kind of technology that eases the process of getting such warrants to cases where no-knock warrants have placed officers in grave danger. We hope you'll follow along. 
No-knock warrants allow police to force entry. The "Broken Doors" podcast investigates how this high-risk tactic is used in the American justice system. Hosted by Jenn Abelson and Nicole Dungca ● Read more » | | | | 
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