No Warrant Needed Search Seizer Wisconsin & Botched Police Raids Chart

State Supreme Court Rules Cops No Longer Need a Warrant to Enter Homes and Seize Evidence

“No precedent appears to exist in the United States Supreme Court or in this court for a new justice who did not participate in oral argument to participate in the case without re-argument,” said Justice Shirley Abrahamson.

Bradley was appointed by Governor Scott Walker after Justice Patrick Crooks passed away on Sept. 21, and is now running for election. Bradley had not participated in five earlier cases since her appointment, but decided to chime in on this one. She believed that listening to taped recordings of the arguments, instead of being there in person and involved, was sufficient for her to make the call.

So, an unelected judge appointed by a partisan politician cast a single vote, without being present during arguments, which effectively nullified the Fourth Amendment in that state. Now in Wisconsin, cops can enter a person’s home without a warrant, seize evidence and use it against the person.

The irony is that this attack on the Fourth Amendment is being carried out under the guise of cops being “community caretakers.” In other words, the state presumes that it is doing what’s best for the common good by violating the rights of the individual.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wisconsin-lost-4th-amendment-rights-single-vote-justice-appointed-scott-walker/

Botched Police State Raids Are Not Isolated Incidents

Thankfully, the Cato Institute released this interactive map to show just how widespread this problem is. The map accompanied the release of Radley Balko’s latest paper on the growing police state in this country, aptly titled Overkill. This map shows all of the no-knock and SWAT style raids gone wrong, and all of the horrible injustices that have taken place.

The data goes back to 1985, but there is little information from before the 2000’s when these raids weren’t common. The map really starts getting crowded after the year 2002 when municipal police departments started getting their 9/11 ‘counter terrorism’ grants and equipment. The War on

Terror and the War on Drugs have both been used as excuses to fund the police state to no end.
The map paints a pretty scary picture. It suddenly doesn’t seem like the isolated incidents that the police departments and the media are always saying they are. Certainly not when there’s dozens of these botched raids every year, that are reported. There are surely hundreds more that are never made known to the public.

http://alibertarianfuture.com/big-government/police-state/police-state-raids-map/#sthash.f2hWJOVj.dpbs

Would you rather be save in your home, Sure but we need more people in jail and less constitutional rights!