Denoting a search or raid by the police made without permission or warning.
〈美〉强行搜查的；突然袭击的
a no-knock raid
在一次突击搜查中。
Example sentencesExamples
During the debate on the Patriot Act, I rose on the House floor to remind my colleagues that secret courts, no-knock searches, and nationwide warrants were all things our founding fathers had fought to gain their freedom from.
How credible are cops' and prosecutors' rationalizations for no-knock searches going to be after people start blogging videos (preferably with sound) of what actually happens during these official home-invasions?
It would take a team of NASA scientists to calculate when a no-knock entry or a brief wait would be appropriate using this calculus.
Here he encountered the tale of a man murdered by police in a controversial no-knock raid.
Agents may need to conduct no-knock searches in computer crime cases because technically adept suspects may ‘hot wire’ their computers in an effort to destroy evidence.
The no-knock warrant is often accompanied by a ‘dynamic entry’ in which a cluster of police kick the door and rush within hooting and howling at the tops of their voices.
There are lots of invasive searches discussed here - car searches, work place searches, no-knock searches, secret searches, border searches - all of whose guidelines do little to protect personal privacy.
Definition of no-knock in US English:
no-knock
adjectiveˌnōˈnäk
US
Denoting or relating to a search or raid by the police made without warning or identification.
〈美〉强行搜查的；突然袭击的
during a no-knock raid
在一次突击搜查中。
Example sentencesExamples
Here he encountered the tale of a man murdered by police in a controversial no-knock raid.
During the debate on the Patriot Act, I rose on the House floor to remind my colleagues that secret courts, no-knock searches, and nationwide warrants were all things our founding fathers had fought to gain their freedom from.
Agents may need to conduct no-knock searches in computer crime cases because technically adept suspects may ‘hot wire’ their computers in an effort to destroy evidence.
How credible are cops' and prosecutors' rationalizations for no-knock searches going to be after people start blogging videos (preferably with sound) of what actually happens during these official home-invasions?
It would take a team of NASA scientists to calculate when a no-knock entry or a brief wait would be appropriate using this calculus.
There are lots of invasive searches discussed here - car searches, work place searches, no-knock searches, secret searches, border searches - all of whose guidelines do little to protect personal privacy.
The no-knock warrant is often accompanied by a ‘dynamic entry’ in which a cluster of police kick the door and rush within hooting and howling at the tops of their voices.