Study Estimates Nearly 96% of Private Property Is Open to Warrantless Searches

[billdeserthills]

Police can traipse onto the vast majority of private property in the country without a warrant thanks to a century-old Supreme Court decision, according to a new study by the Institute for Justice, a libertarian-leaning public-interest law firm.

Study estimates nearly 96% of private property is open to warrantless searches

The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment.

reason.com

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[Nosferatu]

Those "open fields" are fun places to dig holes, especially to those of us with excavators.

 

[L84Cabo]

Those "open fields" are fun places to dig holes, especially to those of us with excavators.

Remember...without a body...it's just a "missing person."

 

[Nosferatu]

Remember...without a body...it's just a "missing person."

Eggzachary.

 

[DB is Here]

Oddly my 110lb. rottweiler doesn't care for strangers much...so come one, come all. The look on most folk's face is priceless when they see him coming.

 

[Jim Horn]

I've long been intrigued with the idea that wolverines can be raised as pets (being kin to ferrets). That leads to the mental image of a burglar, breaking into a home, seeing what he believes to be a ~30 pound terrier and ignoring same. Later, the home owners come home and note the pile of bones in the corner...

 

[JRuby]

Oddly my 110lb. rottweiler doesn't care for strangers much...so come one, come all. The look on most folk's face is priceless when they see him coming.

Really don't want them shooting my dogs

 

[DB is Here]

Really don't want them shooting my dogs

He's behind a 6-foot fence, I'd just sue them and pay-off my house.

 

[JRuby]

He's behind a 6-foot fence, I'd just sue them and pay-off my house.

Doesn't do my dog any good.