Thursday, June 15, 2006
Supreme Court Sez that Police dont need to knock
on your door. From the dissenting opinion from Justice Breyer: "It weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection."
More and more it seems as if we're not our own...goverment owns us and can do whatever they please, including knock on our doors in the middle of the night without a warrant.
update:
I know I was a little off in my comments (can u blame me?)---anyhow, I came accross this guy who seems to be an expert on the topic. Here's some of the stuff he's written about it: "Police are certainly more highly trained than they once were, but they aren't better trained at obseving constitutional protections. They're better trained at paramilitary tactics. They'renow trained by former Navy SEALs and Army Rangers. They're better trained at treating civilians like enemy combatants, not at treating them as citizens wih constitutional rights."
Then he writes: "In all of my research on this issue, I've never -- not once -- seen a police officer convicted of even a misdemeanor for shooting an innocent civilian in a botched raid. Very few are even subject to internal discipline (Sal Culosi, anyone?) And it's happened ("it" being the death of innocent as the resut of a botched raid) about three dozen times. And as Breyer notes in his dissent, the state of Michigan couldn't cite a single time a police officer has successfully been sued for conducting an illegal no-knock raid. Oh, and then there are these."
Anybody remembers Amadou Diallo?
More and more it seems as if we're not our own...goverment owns us and can do whatever they please, including knock on our doors in the middle of the night without a warrant.
update:
I know I was a little off in my comments (can u blame me?)---anyhow, I came accross this guy who seems to be an expert on the topic. Here's some of the stuff he's written about it: "Police are certainly more highly trained than they once were, but they aren't better trained at obseving constitutional protections. They're better trained at paramilitary tactics. They'renow trained by former Navy SEALs and Army Rangers. They're better trained at treating civilians like enemy combatants, not at treating them as citizens wih constitutional rights."
Then he writes: "In all of my research on this issue, I've never -- not once -- seen a police officer convicted of even a misdemeanor for shooting an innocent civilian in a botched raid. Very few are even subject to internal discipline (Sal Culosi, anyone?) And it's happened ("it" being the death of innocent as the resut of a botched raid) about three dozen times. And as Breyer notes in his dissent, the state of Michigan couldn't cite a single time a police officer has successfully been sued for conducting an illegal no-knock raid. Oh, and then there are these."
Anybody remembers Amadou Diallo?
# posted by Raf C. @ 10:15 AM 
