No thanks, Officer. I'm not interested in your free home search offer.

Submitted by Steven Silverman on April 3, 2008 - 3:47pm.

This Saturday the National Capital Area ACLU is organizing a training day to educate the community on how to prevent warrantless police searches of their homes. Scott Morgan and I will be there representing FyR, and I'll try to get some interviews with my new video camera that I'll post online.

This event is in response to MPD's new "Safe Homes" initiative, which sends officers out to act as door-to-door canvassers asking residents to voluntarily let them search their homes for illegal guns. (FYI: Until the SCOUS rules otherwise, handgun possession in DC is a felony).

Needless to say, many residents aren't appreciating these unsolicited offers. Oh yeah, if the police are at your door, be like Valerie.

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B.S. means B.S.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 5, 2008 - 1:26am.

Does it really take a civil rights rocket scientist to call BULL**** on this?

What a great plan. Cops should just go around and ask to search every home every time a crime happens. Why even wait for a crime? You just know some people will have evidence in their homes, so ransack everybody's home twice a week!

You just KNOW some of them will do more than ask politely. They will demand and threaten and coerce, probably threaten to return with a warrant and a SWAT team if people say "No" to them.

I hope everybody with a video camera of ANY kind follows these cops around ALL DAY, EVERY DAY they do this. Carry signs and banners explaining why what the cops are doing is wrong. Then not only will there be some excellent video of the cops harassing people at their homes, but also of cops turning on the peaceful people with cameras and signs.

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No thanks, Officer. I'm not interested in your free home search offer.

B.S. means B.S.

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