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Photo caption, as published by The Miami Herald:
A task force member uses a battering ram to break down the doors as the team sweeps vacated apartments in search of looted goods in New Orleans.
Photo by Carl Juste
Miami Herald
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Commentary:
The apartments are vacated, so what's the criterion for a decision that something was 'looted'?
This seems like more of an occasion to do some looting than to determine if something was looted.
=Bruce=
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Commentary:
Hey, did you hear the joke about the Fourth Amendment?
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Not a very funny joke ... especially if it's your house.
=Rebecca=
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Commentary:
The photo above, published in the Miami Herald, apparently wasn't attached to any article. It was just a free-standing photo with caption, on Knight-Ridder's home page.
Perhaps the news chain's editors didn't think the image and caption were important enough to merit an article, but we think the it raises remarkably important questions.
Tell me again, why were New Orleans residents so dramatically urged, almost
forced to evacuate the city?
Did residents know they were forfeiting their Fourth Amendment rights when they left, and that their homes would be searched in their absence?
How many homes and apartments -- in which neighborhoods -- are having their doors battered down for these "searches," while residents are out of town?
Are search warrants being obtained for these "task force" episodes? If so, on the basis of what evidence?
What agency or agencies comprise this "task force"? And what exactly is their "task"?
How can this "task force" possibly determine whether any items in any apartment or home were purchased, or were stolen? Must evacuees return home with receipts?
Will returning residents be told that their homes have been searched? Or will they simply assume that the much-reported "looters" battered down their front doors and stole their property?
=H&HH=
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