Whitey: "You don't expect Mummbles to to go after those who murder informers, do you?"
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
Whitey: "You don't expect Mummbles to to go after those who murder informers, do you?"
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies?
Yeah, this will really work.
“What ‘chu mean? That ain’y my baby’s. You pigs put that gun there!”
Is he bleepin' kiddin'? Most of these parents are either clueless as to what their kids are into or just don't give a bleep. AND for the small numbers that do finally figure out what's going on, apparently they're not smart enough to turn their kid in..........
Are you kidding me?
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Anybody remember the good old days when the major parental concern about their kids and firearms was how to afford a really nice one to put under the Christmas Tree?
Boston parents must be different from the ones around here.
Parents in most other places can toss their kids rooms, confiscate contraband of all sorts, dispose of it, and help teach the kid what good behavior is.
Somehow Boston parents don’t have that capability. Or, the Boston cops don’t think they, do, or the cops use subtle coercion to work their way inside for a search and all these assurances are just reassuring noises for the rest of the country so we don’t get riled up.
I think the St Louis experiment got 98% compliance because it’s difficult to say no to a bunch of beefy armed guys with body armor who say “We want in, OK?”
If they say they only wish to search the kids rooms, the kids must be pretty dumb to keep heat in their rooms and not under the living room couch, which apparently the cops are saying is off limits to their consensual searches.
This from the city that went to war over warrantless searches using Writs of Assistance.
I guess the Intolerable Acts are a lot more tolerable now.
No disrespect to the police; but it’s like letting the fox into the hen house.
Also, you let them in the door and you are never going to get them out. The government will find all sorts of ways to invade your privacy. You will lose it.
Advertise a special number parents can call if they want, but actively going to homes and flashing a badge can lead to abuse, because people are prone to make decisions based on fear of authority and not knowing the law rather than a informed, rational decision. The police know this.
The article gives away the fact that drugs will not be ignored. Nor will anything else, mind you. "Do you have any guns in the home, Mr./Mrs. ____________? Are they properly stored? Mind if we check while we're here?"
I'm against putting people in a position that by saying "no" to a search, the police officer can assume in any way that there's guilt. That's why I don't like sobriety checkpoints -- if you don't have time to wait in line and you turn around, you're presumed guilty until proven innocent.
What does a sobriety checkpoint have to do with this? Baby steps, that's all I have to say.
IMHO, this is so wrong. Number one, it is a major abuse of authority. People will feel threatened with three cops standing at their front door, asking to come in and search their house. And, how will these people feel if they say, “No way!” They know they will go on a ‘list’ and will be ‘watched’. Might even have a search warrant issued against them, eh?
Second, there it goes, increment by increment. Our Constitution will be dissolved and our sovereignty stripped away.
I assume this comes with immunity for both the parents and kids from prosecution for whatever the police may find, as well as anything they find being off limits for use in obtaining a future warrant? And even then, NO! And being one of the 5% with the stones and Constitutional awareness to say “NO!” must never be able to be used as an index of suspicion.
It will be interesting to see how many people abdicate their responsibility as American citizens and let the cops in? How many people have no clue about the proper role of cops in society? How many have no clue of what the Constitution is let alone what it says?
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Compare Lou Cannon's account with Krugman's diatribe.
Republicans and Race (Krugman's crappy confabulation!)
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WOW!! What arrogance. What ego.
For the parents who go along with this,.... what stupidity.
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and burned later??? "It's a way in which they can get a hold of the household and say, 'I don't want that in my house.'"
Or they could walk into the room and remove it themselves... modeled after one that began in 1994 in St. Louis and ended in 1999, partly because 'funding' ran out.
always a $$$ game...