Columns: Court signals loosening of the last reins on police

This is even creepier.

This could get innocent people killed, including cops.

Columns: Court signals loosening of the last reins on police:

"The U.S. Supreme Court just eviscerated the 'knock and announce' rules that require police to announce their presence and give residents a bit of time before smashing in their door. Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in Hudson vs. Michigan, discounted the privacy interest involved, sneering that 'knock and announce' amounts to little more than the right 'not to be intruded upon in one's nightclothes.'
(I don't know about him, but I would put a pretty hefty premium on avoiding that particular scenario.)

But Scalia has a point in implying that the case has little practical importance, since the protocol that police knock, identify themselves and then wait 15 or 20 seconds before entering, has gone the way of the 50-cent cup of coffee. It can still be found, but not nearly as often as it used to be."