Posted on 03/14/2008 7:20:21 AM PDT by stockpirate
Sorry if this has already been posted. They were talking about it on the air. The plan is for DC police officers to go house to house in certain areas and search for weapons and if any are found they will NOT prosecute.
Last time I checked this was against the law.
“If we get ONE gun off the streets, it will have been worth it.”
Therein lies the flaw in their argument. They will be getting guns out of the houses of law-abiding citizens. These guns aren’t on the streets (in the hands of criminals).
Typical liberal thought: if the gun exists, it will - sooner or later - get stolen and used to kill someone.
Didn’t the police do this successfully in Massachusetts a few months ago?
They ask, you consent, they have permission.
You _can_ say “no” to a team of heavily armed cops knocking on your door at oh-dark-thirty asking “may we search your house for illegal stuff? we promise not to prosecute, only confiscate.” You answer “no”, they leave. They might never come back...ever...
Yup. A whole lotta gusn will likely suddenly be legal in DC come June...
I think they are hoping this is their ace in the hole:
“if any are found they will NOT prosecute.”
They may hope (falsely) that if they cannot prosecute you for what they find, then they can do it.
They can’t, of course. I mean, they can, but they will be violating the constitution if they do.
They do this in DC but don’t want an electronic intercept of a known terrorist communicating to someone in this country?
“if any are found they will NOT prosecute.”
They may hope (falsely) that if they cannot prosecute you for what they find, then they can do it.
Courts have ruled time and time again that police can deceive suspects under many circumstances. If anyone believes that the cops "will not prosecute" no matter what, they're either really stupid or really gullible.
Let us examine more closely the rationale for lying at the investigative stage. Here, police are permitted by the courts to engage in trickery and deception and are trained to do so by the police organization. One might properly conclude, from examining police practices that have been subjected to the highest appellate review, that the police are authoritatively encouraged to lie.(15)
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15490870/detail.html
Boston is about to do the same thing.
I bet quartering troops in the “at-risk” households would stop illegal guns, they should try that next.
fair enough: so the cop says “while asking for voluntary compliance i saw in plain view the following suspicious behavior in a neighborhood known as a high drug trafficing and violence area...”
Chief Cathy rode a sexual harassment lawsuit to a pile of cash and promotions right up to the Chief’s office. I believe she was Commander of the Special Operations Division (those guys that run around in black tactical gear hollering “hut! hut! hut!”) before Mayor Adrian promoted her.
I just read the Boston article. Believe it or not, I actually like the idea. I think of it as a neighborhood “ignorance/stupidity crackdown”.
That is, if you are stupid enough to actually let them in, you deserver what you get. I’m actually quite serious here.
On a related note:
“Wilkerson said you don’t call the police because you’re having a tough time parenting.”
My wife made that mistake with my stepson before I met her. He was 16, they were in a small town, and she thought she would use the old (old as in 1930’s through 1960’s) trick of sicking the police on your kid for something just to “put the fear of God into him”. Unfortunately, the cops got a little too into it and it became a small nightmare with almost permanent consequences. And no, it was not gun or drug related. It really was “minor” but the cops are getting weird.
I don’t trust ‘em any more. Even the nice ones.
no way
Or put another way: "Let us in and we'll just take the guns. Make us get a warrant, and you go to jail"
Notice how they’re timing this for the week before the Supreme’s hear oral arguments on the Constitutionality of DC’s gun laws?
“I am no fan of guns”
How do you protect your home, personal items and family?
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