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The Feds

By Jonathan Simor

Of all the bizarre and disturbing aspects to the story widely report in the media yesterday (read Monica Davies reporting in the NYTimes) about the man impersonating a federal officer who led local law enforcement on a wave of house searches and arrests in a Missouri town this spring, the one that haunts me the most is the following:Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood ? mainly from television ? to be the law.They said the agent, a man some had come to know as ?Sergeant Bill,? boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. So, thanks to television!, people have a vague understanding that police ought to have a warrant before they could enter a persons home to arrest them or search through their private belongings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).