Hey, it's Allison, and I am so excited to share with all of you a new podcast from the Washington Post.

The series is called Broken Doors, and it investigates no-knock warrants, a dangerous policing tactic that led to some deadly consequences.

And honestly, every episode of this show had me gasping, dropping my jaw just physically reacting to the unbelievable revelations that my colleagues here at the post have managed to uncover through their investigative work.

Broken Doors is hosted by post reporters Jen Abelson and Nicole Dunca.

They've been working to uncover the details of this story for more than a year, and their discoveries reveal all these twists and turns of how no-knock warrants have been used and abused around the country.

It's really a fascinating lesson, and the first few episodes are out now wherever you listen to podcasts. For now though, here's a preview.

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

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

We'd be digging through warrants to see how many times they're targeting multiple houses in no-knock raids, 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.

You didn't get to see the search warrant.

No, I never seen it. Still haven't.

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

Oh, you read it.

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.

I can't believe that people are still doing this thing, and no-one's been held accountable for what happened to real.

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