Hey everyone, this is Lillian, host of the Constitutional Podcast.

I wanted to let you know about a new series from my colleagues on the investigative team here at the Washington Post.

It's called Broken Doors.

Broken Doors is a podcast that investigates no-knock warrants,

which is a dangerous policing tactic that allows law enforcement to force their way into people's homes without any warning.

It's led to some deadly consequences, and as you can imagine, these warrants also raise a lot of interesting and important questions about Americans' constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment.

Which is why I think you constitutional listeners would particularly appreciate listening to this series.

It's a fascinating lesson with twists and turns about how these no-knock warrants have been used and abused around the country.

I hope you'll check out their episodes. Here's a lesson to their trailer.

My reporting partner and I have had this routine over the last year.

We'd be digging through warrants, affidavits, lawsuits.

How many times they're targeting multiple houses in no-knock race?

Because it's incredibly dangerous and a lot of the ones we're doing.

And when we'd see something unusual, we'd start talking to people.

So you didn't get to see the search warrant? No, I've never seen it. Still haven't.

I have a copy. Do you want me to read it or do you? Oh, I agree.

This is how we started one of the most exhaustive investigations into the use of no-knock warrants in the American Justice System.

It was such a simple issue. Break down the door and preserve the evidence.

I'm embarrassed to think that I was an advocate of that.

You believed that they needed to preserve the evidence? Yes.

That this was a huge problem for officers across the country.

Yes, it was a knee jerk.

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