Reply #102: The police did not "issue" that warrant. A JUDGE did. And a prosecuting attorney asked for it.

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If, and that's just IF, an informant gave up the address as part of a plea, or a cop was undercover and purchased contraband in that house, that's just the start of the matter. Someone had to ask a judge to issue the warrant, and convince that judge that this was a righteous cause.

The cops executing the warrant are only a piece of the puzzle. The other pieces are the investigators, the DA's office, the judge...

I wonder if the family members are being fully forthcoming when they said the woman lived alone. Did any relative at all stop by regularly? Regularly enough to be a fixture, at least at certain times of the day?

There are a thousand questions, and no answers, really, yet. I'm not prepared to condemn ANYONE in this unfortunate tragedy. All we know is that a warrant was served, a woman is dead and three police are wounded.

Beyond that, who knows what the details were? There are too many blank spots yet to be filled in. A good start would be if we could see the actual warrant.