By TIM LYNCH
Over at Cato’s Police
Misconduct web site, we have identified the worst case for December. It was the
case of Eric Crinnian, a Kansas City man who was threatened by police for
refusing them warrantless entry into his home. When Crinnian, a lawyer, refused
to let officers search his home in the middle of the night without a warrant,
he says an officer told him, “If we have to get a warrant, we’re going to come
back when you’re not expecting it, we’re going to park in front of your house,
where all your neighbors can see, we’re gonna bust in your door with a
battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs…and then we’re going to
ransack your house looking for these people.”
That kind of conduct shows a
clear contempt for the Constitution, which is supposed to be the law of the
land.
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