I just read the Boston article. Believe it or not, I actually like the idea. I think of it as a neighborhood “ignorance/stupidity crackdown”.
That is, if you are stupid enough to actually let them in, you deserver what you get. I’m actually quite serious here.
On a related note:
“Wilkerson said you don’t call the police because you’re having a tough time parenting.”
My wife made that mistake with my stepson before I met her. He was 16, they were in a small town, and she thought she would use the old (old as in 1930’s through 1960’s) trick of sicking the police on your kid for something just to “put the fear of God into him”. Unfortunately, the cops got a little too into it and it became a small nightmare with almost permanent consequences. And no, it was not gun or drug related. It really was “minor” but the cops are getting weird.
I don’t trust ‘em any more. Even the nice ones.
Problem is, your stupid neighbors have given a liberal judge an incentive to find their example.....precedential. Or something.
Legal positivism, remember.
SCOTUS banned dragnets, remember that? So now we have "sobriety checkpoints" instead. Because CJ Burger thought the game was worth the candle -- remember that one?
Republican appointees are just as quick as Lefty ones to throw out the Constitution and their duty, when a policy end lurches into view.