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War on Drugs

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

The rising use of SWAT teams is bad, but it's about to get worse.

Radley Balko | 12.13.2006 12:20 PM

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Radley Balko on botched SWAT raids in the November 2006 issue of Playboy.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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