Posted on 01/22/2015 10:15:22 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra
And they wonder why a lot of people have lost that warm and fuzzy feeling about the police with the guns...
But, “the community” does not HAVE a “right to live in a crime-free environment”.
So what if they “destroy” the evidence? Let them flush it all - who cares (except for their wholesaler, who will still want to get paid).
Besides, you can pretty much only flush drugs. You can’t flush stolen engines and transmissions.
The problem is that there will be very few, if any, people who survive resisting a wrongful entry with any force,
much less with a firearm.
You fire a shot at a cop, even if they are breaking into your house, you’re dead. They’ll make sure of it.
True.
The most anti-American quote I have seen so far this year.
But is IS early yet...
BUMP that!!
Thank the Democrat for trying to fix the problem.
Just d*mn.
“You have to draw the line between your right as a citizen to privacy and a community’s right to live in a crime-free environment. You can’t have them both,” Mills said.
Here you go! The cops claim that you can’t be safe and free at the same time. Just unimaginable that someone can think like that and be given a gun.
State to police: Fuck your no-knock warrants — bust into someone's house or business w/o a warrant and you will personally pay them twice the cost of repairs.
But it really should be a non-issue; GA State Constitution says:
SECTION I, Paragraph XIII. Searches, seizures, and warrants.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue except upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation particularly describing the place or places to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
Paragraph II. Protection to person and property; equal protection.
Protection to person and property is the paramount duty of government and shall be impartial and complete. No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary Safety,
deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
You’re on the drug dealers’ side! /sarc
I disagree.
It is not possible to have both.
To say otherwise is to deny the fallibility of mankind.
An expert, she says?
How many has she experienced on the business end...the "home" side of the door?
As the union rep, has she planned the message to deliver to families due to the inevitable increase in service-related deaths as homeowners gear up for an event that is increasingly likely?
With so many home invasion style robberies, should a homeowner believe "POLICE!"
Are police lives the only lives that matter?
What is the appropriate penalty for a botched raid?
What say, you, Ms "expert?"
If there is so little dope in a house that they can flush it that fast, then it probably should have been done with a buy/bust and a follow on search warrant.
NONE OF US ARE ASKING FOR BOTH.
Hell, NOBODY IS.
Because there is no Community Right to a Crime Free Environment.
Never has been intended, much less endeavored for.
If knocking on the door like a civilized person will allow the evidence to be destroyed, then there must have not been very much to find in the first place.
Wasn’t there an incident in Texas where a low-level criminal was surprised by a no-knock visit from the cops and he shot and killed one of them? The grand jury refused to indite him.
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