Violent criminals run from the police every day. I spent 20 years in law enforcement, and in Washington, DC manhunts for armed robbers, carjackers, rapists and murderers who had just evaded police occurred about 3 times a week in my district alone. While we have, on occasion, gone door to door, it was to A) warn residents and B) ask them if they had seen the guy. I never went door to door into peoples' homes looking for a suspect. Each knock on the door was a request, not a demand. I've had citizens tell me to F*** off when I knocked on their door during a manhunt. I thanked them and wished them well, and left.
Either there is a 4th Amendment, or there isn't. I wonder if any citizens refused police entry into their homes during the Boston event and, if they did, what the police response was. I bet it wasn't good.
As I look at the link in post 61, I can’t help thinking if there had been cell phone videos during the supression of the Warsaw ghetto what those videos would have looked like. I imagine somehting like this.
The videoes that I saw were very disturbing. Looked more like a raid on the homes than a house to house search.
Loud knocking and screaming at the residents to hurry up. Sedning them out 1 at a time with hands behind their head and stopping them to frisk them twice and screaming at them to hurry up.
No telling what they did to them indoors. The people were cooperating and hustling to do as ordered, so I couldn’t understand why the cops were sounding so hateful.