The police wants you to let them search your residence...

[transdimensional]

D.C. offers amnesty to people who let police search their homes for guns, drugs

Knock knock. Who's there? It's the police. We want you to let us search your residence. In return for signing a consent form, we'll give you amnesty for any guns or drugs that we find among your personal belongings.

The Washington Post says conversations like the fictional one that you just read will begin taking place this month as city police begin a new effort to get illegal guns and drugs off the streets of the nation's capital.

"If we come across illegal contraband, we will confiscate it," police Chief Kathy Lanier tells the paper. "But amnesty means amnesty. We're trying to get guns and drugs off the street."

Later this month, The Examiner says officers assigned to the poorest part of the city will start going "door-to-door asking residents for permission to search their homes." (If they're successful, the reports say police will extend the program to other parts of the District.)

Lanier says she expects parents who suspect their children of being involved with guns or drugs will consent to a search of their residence. But some people say they're skeptical about the initiative.

"The idea that this is going to be a peaceful, friendly invitation to enter the home may not work," Councilman Phil Mendelson, a Democrat, tells The Washington Times.

Ronald Hampton, a former police officer who now runs the National Black Police Association, tells the Post that he wouldn't let them search his house. "They haven't earned that level of access or respect from the community," Hampton says. "I just can't believe they're trying to do that. I've never heard of anything like that in my life."

Would you let the police search your home?

source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/dc-offers-amnes.html

This tries to setup the idea "all good citizens allow a search of their homes".
Your desire for privacy turns you into a defacto suspect.

Is the police allowed to grant amnesty?
Remember, it is legal for U.S. cops to lie to suspects.
As everybody is a suspect they can and will lie to you too!
How about the police leaving your property and you'll give them amnesty for trespassing?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"
This seems to be outdated!
Wait until the local GESTAPO knocks at your door!

regards, transdimensional