Absolutely, yep, that's exactly how it is, and so yeah, you have to present more evidence

to show that there's a need for it to be a no-knock.

We didn't even attempt to, we weren't trying for that, I mean, this is a, you know, it's

a marijuana grow, we weren't necessarily worried about him being able to destroy evidence,

it's not like he's going to be able to go and flush the grow, so, so, so we got it.

We had been to the house many times, so that's the point I want to ask you that you guys

have been to the house five times, either this guy didn't get the message or he's stupid

because if the cops have been to my house five times, I got to figure it's some point

you're coming back with a warrant, either he's, you know, I'm thinking like, let me

get rid of this stuff, but apparently he didn't.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, he obviously had a completely different mindset.

He knew we were coming back, I mean, and ultimately that comes out as the story unfolds,

and rather than get rid of it, he just prepared for us in a different way.

So, so we had gone there enough, we knew the layout of the house the best we could, we

had done all of our scouts, and then anytime we would serve a warrant, we would do

a risk assessment, and we had a matrix that we would use to fill in information and it

would be essentially, it's like a scorecard.

You put the known information that you have, and there's points that are assigned to

certain things, and that scorecard will tell you who serves the search warrant.

In our particular case, the matrix, you know, 0 to say 30, certain things can, would score

points on the matrix if he's known to be violent, if he's this or known to, you know, to use

a gun.

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