In yet another huge blow to our Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled in Jan 2015 that a police officer can violate your 4th Amendment rights if they make a ‘reasonable’ mistake regarding the law.
If you are ignorant of the law, that is no excuse, but if a cop is ignorant of the law, he can violate your rights.
As incredible as it sounds, any cop can ‘play dumb’ and proceed to do anything he wants to you and feel secure that his excuse of ignorance will shield him.
How in the hell can a cop be expected to uphold the law if he doesn’t even know the law?
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Most police are fair but letting the rest do what ever they want is a disgrace and sounds like a socialist party decision.
And they will! Cops are smiling today knowing they their sickness has been blessed by the court.
They knew the risk when they signed up for the job. Neither your fear nor theirs is justification to infringe on mine or anyone else’s rights. Only a coward and a fool would trade essential liberty for false security.
Imagine if the men at Lexington and Concord said “Well boys now is not the times to fight this infringement of our rights let’s fight them in the courts”
They don’t break the law they just pass another exempting themselves from it. You know just like the Constitution says they are not allowed to do.
Roxanne M Kirkpatrick that only because you haven’t had a cop decide he wanted to be a$#%&!@*that day because his old lady found a real man not someone with a god complex and takes his frustration out on you. I’ve seen a cop pull over people and claim he saw them throw out a cig butt and tried to give them a littering ticket when they didn’t even smoke and all their windows were up.
I went through the Police Academy and we were taught the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Federal and DC Laws, Rules and Regulations– this smells like f**e news to me. I know I’ve been retired a good many years so, I can’t speak for current cops. Most require a degree in law enforcement studies before applying to be one….it would be disturbing to me if the Liberals have ‘dumb down’ the Law Enforcement community, et.al.
Even if I’m in the right and the police detain me or arrest me for any reason even if I have done nothing that I know of. You comply and go willingly. The only thing you can do is make your phone call and sort it out in a civil manor.
We don’t go by law we go by statue two very different things you should do some research.