[CHICAGOFARMER]

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. announced Tuesday he has established a gun crime task force that will rely on so-called consent searches of cars in the city, a practice that has been restricted among Milwaukee police

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This "consent search" to entrap citizens is outragous.

Every Wisconsin citizen should be up in arms over this invasion of privicy.

Wake up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Dan from Michigan]

"Do you consent to a search?"
No.

End of story.

[flashbunny]

This isn't an invasion of privacy. It's a consent search. They ask you if they can search your vehicle. If you consent, they search, hence the name. If you don't, they don't, and you go on your way unless they have a legal reason to detain you.

You don't live in milwaukee county, and countless others who have posted on this don't either, but I do. David Clarke is the most professional and competent law enforcement officer I've seen in this area in the last few decades. He doesn't accept excuses or shoddy work. He doesn't bury things behind the 'blue line', he does his job and he does it well. The amount of training he has required of deputies (40 hours) and the fact that he is limiting this only to trained deputies follows a pattern with him - things will be done right and within the law, and he will keep on top of things to make sure they are done that way.

Crime in milwaukee increased while it decreased elsewhere because chief art jones is an incompetent hack who plays the race card when his policies come back to haunt him. He disbanded the gang squad and stopped consent searches not because of constitutional issues, but because he found a racial angle to play up. That's it.

The deputies have 40 hours in constitutional training. 40 hours. How many do you have? The people who say this is unconstitutional obviously haven't read it lately. A consent search doesn't violate anyone's rights. It's within the bounds of the BOR. If you can find out how it violates it, post the amendment and explain how it relates to a search where a person was asked for and gave consent to a search.

Consent searches are done all across the country. Are consent searches done in your community? Do you even know the answer to that? Or are you just reacting to this because it sounds good?

If a consent search is a violation of constitutional rights, then ROE v WADE was a valid constitutional decision, because apparently things can be written into the constitution that aren't actually there.

[Smokin' Joe]

You got it!

If you say "No." to a consensual search, then you must have something to hide, right?

Which means that they now have probable cause to search your vehicle.

Tell us, sir, have you quit beating your wife yet? Yes or No.

[ninenot]

But the "consent searches" will only take place in two geographic areas which, ah, 'have a great deal of gun violence.' Read between the lines.

Since my car is missing its front license plate, I guess, if I am EVER caught in one of those areas, I will have to refuse a search.