It's the same as when they do a street sweep when their warrant has bad info. Watched this over and over again.
Feds in combination especially start doing cold knocking on the worse looking houses because their "bad info" may lead them to finding it/whomever nearby ... Total BS. My tinfoil hat instincts say they got shoddy warrant to specifically do cold knock sweeps of surrounding areas.
In the cases where they aren't allowed in, they usually came back with warrants for those properties.
Over and over again they dont need full investigations or supporting evidence. The judges just sign whatever is put in front of them.
An indeed, how is they are not required to recompensed for damage done in error?
Bah, usual ranting over something far too many people seem comfortable with. "What was I supposed to do?" "They're protecting my kids from (terrorism/drugs/gangs)"
and of course for the ultimate sheep, "Well, I feel safer. What's the problem?"