You are quite right. Quartering means they move in and live there. Not the situation.
The rules are of necessity different when the cops are engaged in an active or potential firefight. What, they’re supposed to get a warrant and stand out on the porch reading it to the occupants while under fire?
Yes. The police have squandered their moral capital. We're not talking about Andy Griffith here. I view them more as those strutting about, ordering bystanders to turn off their cameras, beating someone on the ground, telling them to stop resisting, handcuffing those they shot to death in the back to make things look legitimate, and tampering with evidence.
What, they’re supposed to get a warrant and stand out on the porch reading it to the occupants while under fire?
False dilemma.