>You don’t get to decide what is reasonable under the 4th Amendment. The Constitution hasn’t delegated that authority to you.
Really, then what is the point of the Tenth Amendment, which says “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” ?
The Constitution did NOT delegate to the United States the ability to define, or redefine, the English language. In fact, the First Amendment’s right to petition the government is EXACTLY an admission that the Government can wrong people: this INCLUDES holding such no-knock entries as “unreasonable.” Can you find me ten Citizens off the street in 48 hours who will agree that “someone barging into their house unannounced at 4 AM” is ‘reasonable,’ if so then I will GLADLY concede the point and consider no-knock warrants as ‘reasonable’ and therefore Constitutional.
*this INCLUDES holding such no-knock entries as “unreasonable.” should read instead as:
this INCLUDES holding such no-knock entries as “reasonable.”
"The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."
So the job of interpreting the Federal Constitution has been specifically delegated to the Supreme Court, not you.
Can you find me ten Citizens off the street in 48 hours who will agree that “someone barging into their house unannounced at 4 AM” is ‘reasonable,’
Straw man. No one is talking about random people walking into your house unannounced. Nor is anyone talking about the police using such tactics willy nilly. The appropriate question would be "Can the police make an unannounced entry at the residence of a criminal for which they have obtained a lawful warrant, validated with probably cause, when they possess reasonable suspicion that announcing entry to serve the warrant would subject them or another party to a serious risk of death or serious bodily injury, or result in the destruction of evidence?"
Let's try another one. Suppose a terrorist is holding hostages and will kill them if any attempt is made to knock and announce. Should the police officers have to first knock and announce and present a warrant in order to make a dynamic entry and rescue said hostages? For the purposes of this question, assume that the officers possess a valid warrant supported with probable cause to arrest the terrorist.