One Door Down

Not that this is a new phenomenon, or this hasn’t been beaten to death, but every time it happens, it’s still shocking.

There are so many reasons why this is wrong, why this should never happen, why, when this does happen, it should be addressed. But no one gives a damn, and no one ever has. Gots to get the bad dudes, and the litany of excuses for incompetence gets pulled out and splayed.

But none of this was necessary on any level. No need for the raid. No need for the damage. No excuse for the mistake. None of it.

The FBI sent an email to Eyewitness News stating, “The FBI had a valid arrest and search warrant for 2835 Cleburne Road. At the time of serving the warrant, the person of interest was located next door.”

Well, that explains it. The FBI is our friend. The FBI are the people who will save us.

Channel 9’s Jeff Levkulich has been asking who will pay for the damage done to Capp’s home. Eyewitness News was originally told nobody would pay because the FBI denied it was the wrong house. However, late Thursday, there was a company at the home getting a damage estimate and Levkulich was told the estimate will be sent to the FBI.

The FBI has a legal unit where anyone who believes their home was wrongly damaged from a raid can call and file a claim. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has a similar policy. The FBI told Eyewitness News that homeowners make the necessary repairs first, then submit a reimbursement claim to the FBI.

Problem solved. As long as it wasn’t your house.

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20 thoughts on “One Door Down”

  1. Patrick Maupin

    Yet again, private enterprise proves more efficient than government — when private enterprise damages the wrong house, there’s usually nothing left.

    Of course, this FBI raid just happened in California, where at least one coroner has shown himself capable of incinerating the wrong body, so maybe they’re developing better destruction misdirection capabilities.

    The burning question, though, is where Florida is in all this. They used to have a lock on whacky, and they’ve been awfully quiet lately — I hope they’re not just saving it all up for the election.

    1. Patrick Maupin

      My bad. I saw Orange County and wrongly assumed California. It all makes more sense now I realize it was the othet Orange County.

  2. Keith

    Forgive the tangentially related comment, but any idea how many times they have to bust into the wrong house, shoot the wrong people (or dogs) and destroy your property unnecessarily, before someone thinks it might be a good idea to fix the problem by creating an office to process the insurance claims?

  3. John Thacker

    So infuriating. They of course were able to arrest the neighbor whom they actually wanted without incident. None of it necessary at all. This is what happens when cops in general (certainly the FBI in particular) put infinite weight on “officer safety,” and thus absolutely no consideration for anything or anyone else that can possibly even theoretically conflict. Same story every day somewhere in this country.

    1. SHG Post author

      There are a hundred things that are wrong with this. There are a hundred reasons why this should never have happened. Maybe more.

  5. Norahc

    Since there is no incentive for law enforcement to change their tactics, this is only going to get much worse. They don’t pay the bills for any damages they cause since that is passed on to the taxpayers, and deferential attitudes given by the courts to the First Rule of Policing covers them when they kill or injure someone.

  6. st

    The video in the linked news report (0:28) mentions that the homeowner “called deputies about suspected drug activity.” So the violence they wanted to rain on their neighbors visited them instead.

    It doesn’t change any of the wrongness, but calling the deputies set things in motion.

    1. SHG Post author

      There are number of ways to take that, according to one’s perspective. Some will call it karma, because of their hatred of the police and/or snitches, but that’s unfair.

      1. Patrick Maupin

        It’s not karma, but it is yet another example of law enforcement, consciously or not, training the populace that Clint Eastwood’s “Do you feel lucky, punk?” is something that any would-be 911 caller should seriously ask themselves.

        How long until “de-escalated” on a police report means “everybody stopped twitching?”

        1. SHG Post author

          Maybe. Maybe not. Sometimes there’s just a good reason to call the cops on funky stuff going on at the neighbors.

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