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> It's your civic duty to answer the door. If and only if I can reasonably expect that the officer at the door is competent and adequately prepared to perform
by simoncion 11y ago
> It's your civic duty to answer the door.
If and only if I can reasonably expect that the officer at the door is competent and adequately prepared to perform whatever task he is present to perform.
If an officer comes to the door, then -effectively- locks me out of my own house for an hour+ because he failed to prepare for the possibility that I would refuse to permit a warrantless search of my property, then his incompetence has done me a serious injury. (Especially if I have an urgent need to urinate!)
I am under absolutely no obligation to -as a courtesy- permit the police to waste my time with their incompetence. There is a system that every taxpayer pays for that provides at least a cursory double-check of an officer's search plan, and provides written certification that said plan has been approved. If an officer CBA to get such a certification and announce that he has one in his possession when he knocks at my door, I CBA to waste my time while he locks me out of my home for the time it takes him to get the certification that he should have gotten before he ever made the trip to my place.