{"id":20177,"date":"2015-12-29T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20177"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:12:42","slug":"wapo-radley-balkos-the-watch-blog-federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20177","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog &#8211; Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/12\/28\/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home\/\">Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, merely shopping at a gardening store could make you the target of a criminal drug investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: This article has a link to an MPP article on manipulated false positives on field tests: StoptheDrugWar.org: Feature: <a href=\"http:\/\/stopthedrugwar.org\/chronicle\/2009\/mar\/06\/feature_citing_startling_researc\">Citing Startling Research on False Positive Drug Tests, Researchers Call for Moratorium on Field Drug Test Kit Testing<\/a>. The search target drank tea, and it was found in the trash search, and the police reported it as field testing positive for THC, which was false. The false report would justify a Franks hearing and \u00a7 1983 liability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Radley Balko&#8217;s &#8216;The Watch&#8217; Blog &#8211; Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home: Yes, merely shopping at a gardening store could make you the target of a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-probable-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20181,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions\/20181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}