Houston Home Invaded by Police Imposters

[chicharrones]

If the address is given, somebody from the area could say which side of the tracks it is on, and give a handle on motive.
The pseudo-cops were certainly inept and the resident a quick thinker.

The Charlotte Observer article has a link to a video. The address in the caption is not One More it's Windmoor on the far west side of Houston near the line with Katy, Texas.

I lived a mile west of there from 1992 to 2002 in my first house. That area is mostly working class.

When I lived there, people built a special hidden gate in the fence to get through my next door neighbor's house's back yard to the drug house behind. Reason? A Harris County sheriff's deputy lived a few houses down from the drug house's front door, so folks would come down my street and walk through my neighbor's yard. Granted, this happened when my neighbor's house had no occupants for about 6 months or so.

That's when my first guns were my SKS and Ruger GP100. That heavy Ruger got put into the belt line of my pants on more than one occasion while living there and the SKS was kept at the ready in the house.

In that same decade there was a case where a pair of high school boys murdered a girl and dumped her in the abandoned sand quarry about a mile west of my house. That quarry was a frequent place for me and my friends to go plinking back then right before urban sprawl caught up to the place.

In my current house in another part of greater Houston, a grow house was found across the street from me. My daughter and I watched the bust go down from our front windows one afternoon after she got off the school bus.

Drugs, drugs, and more drugs in typical workin' class neighborhoods of just about anywhere in the USA.

 

[citizenconn]

I'm not a criminal and have no reason to think police would kick in my door; so, a door being unexpectedly breached will be assumed to be a home invasion.

I work in and live just north of the People's Republic of Houston and home invasions have been significantly on the rise since Brandon was "elected". They ARE targeted, but most of them are not criminal on criminal. These crews are following people home from the Galleria and banks and other high end retail locations.

Recently the Houston police took down a large, organized crew of over 100 people who were doing these home invasions and thefts (if you believe what the Houston PD claims). In a number of instances they had inside help working at banks who would text/call the crew to alert them of customers who had withdrawn large amount of cash and they would then follow and rob, sometimes beat and even kill, the victims. Criminals have gotten extremely brazen in Houston with many of their takedowns happening in broad daylight because they know about the only time the Houston PD can solve a whodunit is when a criminal associate flips to get the crimestopper reward money.

I don't know what the case was in the home invasion in Katy, but I would not be surprised if these folks were targeted based what some snitch saw in their house or saw them buy or whatever, as another forum member posited. Like many I am very delighted with the outcome for the criminals in this instance.

 

[CDW4ME]

That’s great to hear but if the police kicked in your door, it wouldn’t be the first time they did that at the wrong address.

Yea, despite not being a criminal, I should probably wait and see if the home invaders are legit police are not; no biggie if they are not and kill us all.

 

[jmorris]

Yea, despite not being a criminal, I should probably wait and see if the home invaders are legit police are not; no biggie if they are not and kill us all.

I understand the sentiment, just remember a lot can happen in a fraction of a second as far as a shoot/no shoot decision, you start engaging a SWTA team and your odds of survival go down quickly.

These days when a call from someone you may or may not know is all the evidence they need to make it happen, the odds of them being the team to enter might not be as slim as you think.

You did read one of the above articles where the confidential informant for the case was the person that previously broke into the home, subsequently reported to the police and they raided it on the burglars claims on what was in the house.? Seems like there is zero oversight sometimes.

 

[bearcreek]

Did he tell you that's what he was talking about?

Yes. He told all of us.

 

[Jimfern]

Man, I would love to know how that door was installed/reinforced!

 

[CDW4ME]

I understand the sentiment, just remember a lot can happen in a fraction of a second as far as a shoot/no shoot decision, you start engaging a SWTA team and your odds of survival go down quickly.

These days when a call from someone you may or may not know is all the evidence they need to make it happen, the odds of them being the team to enter might not be as slim as you think.

You did read one of the above articles where the confidential informant for the case was the person that previously broke into the home, subsequently reported to the police and they raided it on the burglars claims on what was in the house.? Seems like there is zero oversight sometimes.

Let me give this some perspective:
I can walk down the street to the beach. In the two years I've lived here the police have never been called to this street that I'm aware of. Houses are all single family (no apartments, duplexes) and house numbers are on mailboxes as well as on the houses. I think there is one homeowner on this street under age 50, most are probably social security age. This is not the kind of area where the police typically get calls, its a "good area". For the police to make a unannounced forced entry on any house on my street would be astronomical odds and to incorrectly target my home for forced entry would be not just against astronomical odds but gross incompetence at more than one level. So, if my front door is being unexpectedly kicked in I am going to assume that it is criminals doing it.

 

[The Night Rider]

Yes. He told all of us.

Perhaps you could quote the post specifically?

 

[Robert]

This thing has wandered off what little point it had. If Jeff wants to reopen it I'll leave it up to him.