Oh Dear
Shortly after a record number of teens were murdered in the streets of St. Louis, police met with residents to talk about ways to get guns away from juveniles.
One woman offered a simple solution.
“Why don’t you knock on the door and ask that mother if you could search the house?”
That idea 10 years ago spawned a wildly successful partnership between police and the community that led to the seizure of hundreds of guns from teenagers.
These consent to search programs frighten me. It’s amazing how many judges are informed that people who are in their court consented to searches yet the defendant states that they did not. This just seems to be another avenue to cover up abuse, but I digress. The real issue is why the parents themselves can’t do the checking. Walk into your kid’s room and find out for yourself.
