What is the alternative? The way we normally operate, in harmony with our Constitution.
Knock, identify, ask for permission. Ask questions to determine if the people in a home are under duress, if not, move on.
It’s not like the search actually found the guy. So all of the searches were an abject failure.
But any day, the police could go into downtown Chicago, and do a door-to-door like this in any public housing apartment complex, and find dozens of criminals. It’s a great way to catch criminals — and it only requires that you throw out the freedoms we hold dear.
You want to know whats really sad? There are more people right now worrying about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Constitutional rights then there was people worried about the Constitutional rights of all those people who were locked down and had their homes searched.
never open your door to the police, if you haven’t noticed, they will stick their foot in the door. Make them show you a warrant
Of course you’re going to say you’re fine and not let the Police in if you’re hiding a terrorist. Or if one is hiding in your attic and you don’t even know about it.
You can’t say because this one search didn’t find him that searches never work.
“So all of the searches were an abject failure.”
This assumes that finding the guy was the objective, and not “further condition the populace to accept further encroachments on their liberty”.