"Yet, in England, Watters noted, police have more freedom to conduct searches without a warrant.
“For example, if you drive a car, we can stop your vehicle without cause,” he said. “Over here, I discovered, police must have just cause for doing that.
“If you have a warrant out for your arrest and are staying at someone’s else’s home in the UK, we can bash in the door without a warrant. And if you commit a crime, we can search your home and your car without a warrant.”
Yes, the “rights of Englishmen” have been severely downgraded in the last hundred years.
It started with the right to keep and bear arms, and has gone downhill from there.
Having a written Constitution, and a federal system that serves as a check on the centralization of power, has helped.
Hmmmmm. Guilty until proven innocent.
I wonder how the lib-tard write of the article "feels" about that.
He's assigned to the Department of Redundancy Department.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is the difference between a citizen and a subject.
There’s a lot of cops here that shouldn’t have guns and they damn sure don’t need armored personnel carriers and other types of military gear they are getting.
When there’s a need for heavy handed SWAT units it should be based on the threat level. Lot of over kill used here when it’s not necessary and more times than not it’s used to justify the equipment use and not for the actual threat. Kind of like a fender bender when you have 4 - 5 fire trucks, couple of ambulances and several cop cars. NOT NEEDED but when the end of year justification comes along they can say we sent out these units on XXX number of calls. BS for the bean counters.
“And if we catch them, we have extensive training in physical combat, so we subdue them.”
This is bs for a start. I know several ex and serving bobbies from the neighbouring Lancashire Constabulary and they have told me that their ‘physical combat’ training is a joke. They get a two day course in how to tackle and restrain a suspect every six months. I do more hours of martial arts training every week than they do in a year, and I still wouldn’t be cocky about taking on a 15 stone six foot+ suspect who didn’t want to go quietly.
He is also incorrect about an English bobby having powers of arrest all over the country. His warrant card only covers England and Wales, if he went to Scotland or Northern Ireland, he’d have no more arrest powers than that of an ordinary citizen.
I seem to recall an earlier “officer exchange” program with the Brits...
Cops in America don’t carry guns because it’s fun. It’s because in many localities, without a gun, the locals will fight arrest.
Brits are more docile.
Yeh how do you think they managed to confiscate all the guns? No warrant searches is how.
Waters needs to face down someone like the late Michael Brown.