(N.Morgan) The Police State is becoming more aggressive and sneaky in their tactics to obtain access to our homes. Now, in this latest scandal, police in Durham NC were going to homes, claiming their had been anonymous 911 calls to go into people’s homes without a warrant. This is a clear violation of our 4th Amendment right! Officers in Durham have apparently discovered that they can create the legal pretext for a search by lying about calls to 9-1-1 emergency services that never actually took place. The tactic is apparently legal — and commonplace — according to an officer’s sworn statements.
WTVD-TV explains: A Durham police officer admitted under oath that he lied in order to gain entry to a home and to serve an outstanding warrant. During a court hearing last May, court officials say he told a District Court judge that it was a common practice within Durham’s police department. He said he knocked on a resident’s door, claiming police had received a 9-1-1 hang up call. But, it never happened. The tactic was pervasive enough for the Durham police chief to issue a department memo immediately calling for its disuse:
It has recently been brought to my attention that some officers have informed citizens that there has been a 911 hang-up call from their residence in order to obtain consent to enter for the actual purpose of looking for wanted persons on outstanding warrants. Effective immediately no officer will inform a citizen that there has been any call to the emergency communications center, including a hang-up call, when there in fact has been no such call.
– Jose L. Lopez, Sr., Chief of Police
Chief Lopez deserves credit for rejecting the practice within his department. But the situation is troubling and raises many questions. But how pervasive is the tactic elsewhere? What can protect people in other jurisdictions from being searched using deception?
A month ago cops banged on my door at 9am and they almost smashed my door in cause I didn’t respond quick enough. One cop was looking in the windows and said I don’t see anyone. I opened the door just as another cop was ready to bash it in.
I go, whats up, and they said they had a 911 call from this residence and I said no but they insisted and asked questions and looked around.
That’s happened several times now and my phone has been making noises and calls disconnected for many years now and not to mention my mail is opened at times.
Most cops are former military and the military has no regard for constitutional rights!
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A month ago cops banged on my door at 9am and they almost smashed my door in cause I didn’t respond quick enough. One cop was looking in the windows and said I don’t see anyone. I opened the door just as another cop was ready to bash it in.
I go, whats up, and they said they had a 911 call from this residence and I said no but they insisted and asked questions and looked around.
That’s happened several times now and my phone has been making noises and calls disconnected for many years now and not to mention my mail is opened at times.
Someone has their eye on me