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Man, we are fast approaching our last days of freedom:
Police to search for guns in homes

Pandering to the parents of kids in high-crime areas, the police are asking permission of parents, to have their kids’ rooms searched for guns.

Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms.

The program, which is already raising questions about civil liberties, is based on the premise that parents are so fearful of gun violence and the possibility that their own teenagers will be caught up in it that they will turn to police for help, even in their own households.

Are people afraid of their own kids? So afraid that they let the cops into their homes? And based on such credible evidence as:

Police will rely primarily on tips from neighbors. They will also follow tips from the department’s anonymous hot line and investigators’ own intelligence to decide what doors to knock on. A team of about 12 officers will visit homes in four Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods: Grove Hall, Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue, Franklin Hill and Franklin Field, and Egleston Square.

Unfortunately, ratting out a neighbor is fast becoming a way of life on its own; now, it is sanctioned and encouraged.

The program will target young people whose parents are either afraid to confront them or unaware that they might be stashing weapons, said Davis(Police commissioner - ed), who has been trying to gain support from community leaders for the past several weeks.

One of the first to back him was the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, cofounder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, who attended yesterday’s meeting.

“What I like about this program is it really is a tool to empower the parent,” he said. “It’s a way in which they can get a hold of the household and say, ‘I don’t want that in my house.’ ”

Jeez, “Rev” Brown. You have a distorted view of “empowering the parent.” In the home, the parents have the power already. Just parent; it’s a verb, too.

The Boston Police Department has already distinguished itself over the past year, with the paranoia over harmless LED devices, and the blowing up of their own traffic counters.

Idiots.

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