U of Texas Tech Lib. 21 April, 1996. At 2 a.m., Tracy White of Los Angeles was awakened by an explosion of a diversionary grenade set off in a trash can outside her front door. She stumbled out into the upstairs hallway and was met by the police. Such raids and ransacking are standard procedure in most large cities and except in most outrageous cases, they receive the approval of the courts.
Police can get search warrants on the flimsiest of suspicion.
In many cases, though, the police do not even bother to get a warrant, since they are virtually unfettered by the risk of successful suits or other sanctions, especially if they confine their warrentless invasions to poor members or minority groups. This article is about how our fourth amendment of the constitution is taken away from us. This article shows that the government will stop at nothing to make sure that legalization does not come about. I would suggest this article to anyone writing a paper over ethics. The War on Drugs.