Richards then slightly opened the room's entrance, with the chain still attached; once he spotted a uniformed officer behind Pharo, he swiftly slammed the door shut.

Drawing from third-party sources such as newspapers and surveys, as well as judicial opinions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court further opined that felony drug crimes all have an inherent danger to police lives and effective investigations.

Although the Court upheld the search of Richards' motel room and considered the magistrate's final draft irrelevant to the facts, that matter was based on the officers' reasonable inferences stemming from the observations during the raid.

In other scenarios involving felony drug crimes, a no-knock raid might be considered unreasonable depending on a court's interpretation of the facts.

Overall, while no-knock warrants are justified to apprehend a suspected dangerous criminal and to prevent the destruction of evidence, they must revolve around reasonable suspicion gathered from specific facts in each instance.