house searches
Looking through homes
House searches are examinations of a residence by law enforcement or other authorities looking for evidence, contraband, or persons.
In most legal systems, house searches require a warrant or exigent circumstances: The police conducted house searches throughout the neighborhood after the escape.
The term often appears in discussions of civil liberties and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
- warrantFormal authorization document
- no-knock raidUnannounced law enforcement search
- raidSudden armed incursion
- policeCivil law enforcement
- investigationFormal examination of facts
seizure · evidence · plain sight · door · knock · flashlight · drawers · closet · attic · basement · contraband · detective · ransack · rummage · inspection · property · body cam · squad
- secret policeStasi, KGB, Gestapo, NKVD, Cheka
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- Stasi operationsStasi, state security, secret police, informants, political arrests
house searchespat-downs
Manual body searches
strip searches · frisks · stop and frisk · body cavity searches · vehicle searches
house searchesexclusionary rule
Ban on unconstitutionally seized evidence
house searchesprivacy rights
Entitlement to personal seclusion
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