Supreme Court upholds no-knock police search
Associated Press via The Yakima Herald-Republic - expect the police to stop announcing themselves when excercising search warrants. Expect more of them to be recognized as bad guys and shot on entry. Good riddance.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court made it easier today for police to barge into homes and seize evidence without knocking or waiting, a sign of the court's new conservatism with Samuel Alito on board.
The court, on a 5-4 vote, said judges cannot throw out evidence collected by police who have search warrants but do not properly announce their arrival.
It was a significant rollback of earlier rulings protective of homeowners, even unsympathetic homeowners such as Booker Hudson, who had a loaded gun next to him and cocaine rocks in his pocket when Detroit police entered his unlocked home in 1998 without knocking.
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Just because they're dressed
Just because they're dressed in black or dark blue, just because they have badges, just because they're shouting "Police!", doesn't mean that they are.
ANYONE can buy police/SWAT uniforms and shiny badges, and ANYONE can shout "POLICE!"
Better show me some proof that you are who you say you are before you try to break down my door. Breaking and entering w/o my permission is NOT a good idea.
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