{"id":18850,"date":"2015-09-16T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18850"},"modified":"2015-09-16T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T18:00:22","slug":"cato-institute-police-militarization-leads-to-extreme-constitutional-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18850","title":{"rendered":"Cato Institute: Police Militarization Leads to Extreme Constitutional Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato Institute: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/police-militarization-leads-extreme-constitutional-violations\">Police Militarization Leads to Extreme Constitutional Violations<\/a> by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a police SWAT team raided Andrew Cornish\u2019s home in Cambridge, Maryland at 4:30am, the officers were heavily armed, dressed in black, wearing helmets and goggles, and carrying battering rams. (They were investigating small-time drug possession\u2014seriously.) They stormed the residence without announcing themselves and killed Cornish seconds later as he emerged from his bedroom in his underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Cornish\u2019s estate sued the Cambridge police. At trial, Cornish\u2019s estate claimed that the police violated two Fourth Amendment rules. First, the police violated the knock-and-announce rule when they failed to wait more than five seconds for him to answer the door after knocking. Second, the police violated the prohibition on excessive force when they shot him to death. The jury found for Cornish\u2019s estate on the knock-and-announce violation and against him on the excessive force violation, awarding damages to the estate.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit arrogated to itself the role of the jury\u2014the resolution of questions of fact\u2014and determined that because \u201cthe Officers\u2019 illegal entry was not the legal cause of Cornish\u2019s death,\u201d the estate was only entitled to nominal damages to \u201cvindicate the depravation of Cornish\u2019s constitutional rights.\u201d Cornish\u2019s estate has now appealed to the Supreme Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato Institute: Police Militarization Leads to Extreme Constitutional Violations by Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18851,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18850\/revisions\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}