Unless there was probable cause...officers ain’t go no authority to enter a private home or yard.
And no...looking for a missing child is not probable cause unless the guy is a registered sex offender.
“Unless there was probable cause...officers ain’t go no authority to enter a private home or yard.”
One of the exceptions is “Exigent Circumstances”.
How do you define what they are?
Research it and you’ll find some interesting interpretations.
Probable cause, or exigent circumstances. Courts are really liberal with the circumstances they allow an unannounced home invasion by the government.
“Unless there was probable cause...officers ain’t go no authority to enter a private home or yard.
And no...looking for a missing child is not probable cause unless the guy is a registered sex offender.”
You’re seeing the results of their behavior in Boston, where they ignored any concept of the 4th. What people who allow that don’t understand, is there is ALWAYS a ‘justification’ for ignoring restrictions. It always sounds so reasonable at the moment, but creates a justification for the same actions during lesser incidents.
That is part of what has happened with SWAT, the bar always gets lower until the sleeping child could jump over it.
The Bill of Rights exist, not for when our government and its agents find it convenient, but for when they find our rights to be INCONVENIENT.