ThatGuyFromTheInternet: Question: Under this law, what if you keep the door closed, but only answer verbally?

Dave's not here.

gretzkyscores: fireclown:
CSB: I made a policeman get a warrant to search my car once. I just sort of wanted to see what would happen. He radioed in, and the legal aces back at the station got a judge to issue a warrant. A cruiser dropped it off about an hour and a half later, they searched my trunk and found nothing. Looking back, it wasn't a good way to spend an afternoon.

*fist bump to fireclown*

Actually, IMO, forcing the cops to follow protocol is an *excellent* way to spend an afternoon. Would that more of us were willing to invest the time necessary to keep our public servants "honest", especially when we have nothing to hide. Perhaps if we did so en masse, over time cops would learn to not be so cavalier about citizen's rights, searches and search warrants.

I got tired of the moldy mulch on the side of my house, so I decided to replace it with those tiny white rocks. I went to home depot and got 6 50 lb bags of the stuff. Which went into the trunk of my mustang as I had no other vehicle. Now having 300 lbs in your trunk will lower your car a significant amount. Just so happens on the way home, I blaze through an orange light. I dunno, it was sort of yellow, sort of red. Of course there was a cop there.

He seems interested in the height of my car.
"You car is really riding low."
*This will be a fun time to be a smart-ass, I think* (it wasn't)
'Well sir, thats probably because I have over a hundred kilos of rock in the back'
"You have...what?"
'I have a bunch of bags of cracked rock'
Well that got his attention.
30 seconds later I was handcuffed on the side of the road. 5 minutes after that there was about 4 more squad cars there. Oh, and a dog for some reason.
They asked permission to search my trunk. Well, not so much asked, as they took my keys and opened it.
Officer: What. The. Fark?
Me: Like I said, a hundred or so kilos of cracked rock.

You know, I thought we'd all have a good laugh about it. There was no laughing. Not so much as a smile. What there was, was about an hour and a half of 'warrent checks'.

Oh and as far as running that redish-yellow light. You bet I got a ticket for it.

RandomRandom: Giltric: Solution.....talk to all local landlords and ask them for a key to the house/apartment and permission to enter their property to answer a complaint.

That's not how US law works.

The resident of a house has 4th amendment rights, not just the landlord. Even if the landlord gives the police a key, they still need a warrant. (And thank god we don't have a 2-class 4th amendment, one for home owners and another for renters. We have enough class division as it is.)

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The 4th Amendment, it's your friend.

The 4th is antiquated like the 2nd.
I'm sure the founders couldn't see a future world where people play loud annoying dubstep throguh a 1000 watt stereo system keeping everyone around the neigborhood awake.
Electricity hadn't been invented yet.....neither was dubstep

Jefferson would have probably been the first to complain.....by putting a .60 caliber ball round through the hipsters forehead.

I just moved to DC. My roommates threw a housewarming jam for a few friends, and the cops were called. The cops showed up, asked us to turn it down, then offered the following suggesting to one of my roommates: "Quit smoking weed, too. We don't want to have to come back."

Why yes, we are white - why do you ask?

// cops in NW DC have better things to do than tell us to keep it down
// they had to yell over the gunfire

I AM THE LAW

Laws are for little people.

Suck it plebes.

Mangoose: On one hand, that is a blatant violation of the law and the police chief should be let go and then charged. On the other hand, fark teenagers. Those guys suck.

So, if you had a time machine, once you killed Hitler the first thing you'd do is go back and sodomize high school you with a baseball bat. Good to know, fascist dick.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: It's not that they're refusing to let officers in, it's that they're refusing to come and answer the door.

Personally, having lived next door to some annoying farktards who loved playing loud music at all hours of the night, i'd support just evicting the douchebags, rather than pansying around with a small fine.

You sound old and unlikeable.
/Also fascist.

Die, pigs

Aarontology: In those situations, a search warrant would be necessary to get inside, but that could take a couple of hours, if it's successful, and police Chief Sam Hargadine said that wasn't a good use of his officers' time.

Following the Constitution is not a good use of his officers' time.

When asked for comment he said "The Constitution is too damn annoying. We do want we want. Whateva! We do what we want"

^Actual pic of Police Chief