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Police Abuse

In the Dark

Charles Oliver | 9.15.2014 6:00 AM


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A SWAT team in Klagenfurt, Austria, used a battering ram to knock in the door of an apartment and raid it. They discovered they had burst into the wrong apartment. Officials said they misread the apartment numbers because they left the lights in the hallway off to keep the element of surprise.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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