The Supreme Court recently ruled that cops, if they have a warrant, do not need to knock and announce themselves before busting in hour house.
Cops are trained in paramilitary techniques, not The Constitution, and countless errors in busting the wrong door even lead to deaths of cops.
et's summarize: Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid.
And add to that the earlier decision by the California Supreme Court about drunk driving and you can see how us Civil Libertarians are getting antsy.
