The indispensable Radley Balko is all over the Hudson decision:
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026695.php#026695
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026694.php#026694
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026693.php#026693
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026692.php#026692
I don’t know what to make of Fat Tony Scalia. Is he just a complete fascist, or is he out of touch with reality? I suspect it’s a lot of both. Of course, it’s entirely conceivable that he knows what he writes is complete crap and doesn’t care as long as the state gets to walk over you with impunity.
Is it possible that Scalia really believes that cops are more professional now and more sensitive to civil rights than in the days when the exclusionary rule was put in place? Where does he get his perspective on cops? “Law and Order” reruns? Fat Tony is going to get more innocent people killed, and some cops could get killed, too, now that there is no incentive to knock and announce or otherwise refrain from violations of rights.
This is what comes of stacking the Supreme Court with people who have no experience with real life whatsoever. Fat Tony never did an honest day of work in his life and is so out of touch with reality as to be certifiable.
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They're more "professional," all right, in the sense that they get special training in how to evade common law search and seizure restrictions. Cops have turned the manufacture of pretexts into a fine art. If they think they "know" you're guilty of something, they'll find some pretext for breaking into your home and tossing it, even if there's no probable cause based on the main thing they suspect you of.
Or if all else fails, they'll just plant some evidence.
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