Raids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

To think that your Uber Eats or Amazon driver faces more repercussions for getting an address wrong than an entire goddamn police force in a raid that results in death.

I will say this again. If a delivery driver can lose their job for going to the wrong house, the police raiders should too.

Police: Traumatizes woman irreparably Also police: “Damn why you gotta be so angry, you’re starting to hurt my feelings”

That family where the baby got grenaded - the mother begging for a hold of her injured son being told literally to sit down and shut up is beyond disgusting

So you're telling me they can get a warrant to break into someone's house, go to a completely different house they don't have a warrant for, intentionally cause property damage and injure or kill someone, then walk away without facing repercussions or even reimbursing the victim for damages?

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. "- Admiral Adama

My home was raided at 4:10am while my 4 year old daughter and I were asleep in my bed. It happened so fast I had no time to react except to cover my daughter with my body. They destroyed my front door and my entire living room wall, and took no responsibility in fixing it. My daughter reached for her bathrobe and one of the officers pulled his gun out. It was so incredibly traumatizing. Additionally, the police didn't have the search warrant in their possession until AFTER the raid was over... AND to boot, the person who they were looking for lived next door.

I live in Germany, my dad was a police officer. He had to write an explanation where and why he used his Weapons for every missing bullet. And he never brought it Home, because you need two saves. One for the Waepon and one for the bullets. German Police is far from perfect but at least its not like this.

"When you are handcuffed naked in your own home because the police screwed up a search warrant, shouting should be in your fucking Miranda rights". Fucking classic.

Domino's recently delivered my pizza order to the wrong house and brought me the other house's order. To fix it, they refunded the purchase, let me keep the wrong order, and sent me the correct order for free. I think SWAT teams should adopt this radical new Domino's Pizza system of "let's make things right since we got the wrong address."

I’m 71 years old. The conversation in this piece also took place when I was in my 20s. Very little has changed other than it is sometimes possible to criminally charge and convict police officers. Underline sometimes. Our obsession with addiction and our firm belief it is criminal rather than an illness is a part of the overall problem. We are an extraordinarily judgmental society which impacts every aspect of every social problem, including addiction. It justifies the worst kind of behavior from people in positions of authority, behavior we would nit justify in anyone else.

It takes me more than 20 seconds to answer the door if I knew you were coming yesterday and you show up at exactly the scheduled time!

The thing that infuriated me the most in this clip was the fact that people aren't compensated for damages caused to their property even when police raids the wrong house. That's the main reason why way too many raids happen each year. If they had to pay for the damages they cause when they wrongfully target someon's home, they'd think twice before bursting into a house just because one of them smelled marijuana in the air.

When I was a child of 7 yrs, 35 years ago, my house was raided on suspicion of drug manufacturing. I saw my dog get shot by the police. I loved that dog. It was so traumatizing to watch her die bleeding knowing she was trying to protect me. I'll never forget how terrified of getting killed I was. The police didn't find anything.

“Damn bro I can’t believe I threw a grenade in a baby’s crib” - an actual police officer lmao

"If only the Wolf had possessed military-grade equipment", you say as you tuck your children in at night lmao

As a half white half Mexican kid who grew up in a ghetto neighborhood in south texas and experienced 2 raids growing up.... I really appreciate this video and the emotion you had behind it. The first raid was for my uncle who was not dangerous and is mentally ill. It changed the way I viewed the police and I was only 6 or 7. They weren’t mean necessarily or even wrong in their doing but the experience was extremely traumatic and my uncle was gone by the time they pulled up. They raided my grandmas home where my mom, my self, grandparents and uncle lived. It was traumatic having your home invaded by the law and to see how they handled my uncle and the general experience and tone of it all is uh... not suitable for minors, to say the least. I was isolated and with 2 officers I didn’t know, for no reason, they kept me away from my mom and grandparent who were in the front answering the raid. I was in my room, on my bunk bed and 2 officers stood over me for about an hour before they let my mom come sit with me. They flipped the entire house in front of us. It was ridiculous. They said they were looking for drugs. Maybe my uncle had a small personal amount somewhere but the rest of the home was a normal home and I’m sure they could tell. But they flipped our beds, dressers, drawers, rugs, kitchen, bathroom, china cabinet, sofas... everything. And then they just left when they found nothing. Nothing at all. Left the mess and us on our front yard. To explain how degrading it was is impossible. My grandmas home is in the middle of the neighborhood and across from a park, so many people were watching and all our families have lived here for a long time. It was sad and looking back, I didn’t realize how much it changed my family. I could go on... but thank you.

Busts in woman’s door handcuffs her naked and then has the nerve to say “There’s no need to shout.” People like that just need to catch some hands.

The worst part about the whole "raided a family's home because they smelled marijuana" thing, is that there's a legitimately high chance that what the detective was smelling was a skunk. The two smells are so similar, I know pot smokers who've mixed them up.

I can't believe they don't even pay for repairing the door of the house mistakenly raided. Do the victims have to sue the sheriff/police first?