Monday, May 24, 2004
Fear by Omission
Once again, Drudge tries to create shrieking panic by selective omission in a headline. Here's how he put it: "Supreme Court rules parked cars fair game for police searches..."
Sounds scary, doesn't it? Suddenly, cops can just rip open any parked car and search it because they feel like it, right?
Well... no. If you bother to read the story, you'll find that the Supreme Court has allowed police to search the cars of suspects who have been arrested, provided the police have seen the suspect get out of that car prior to the arrest. Or, in other words, if police are about to pull over a suspect but he or she happens to park and get out of the car before the bust is made, the suspect's car is not thereby immune to search.
Funny how leaving out one important detail can turn a headline into an entirely different story, isn't it?
And, just because it's so damn amusing, here's this...
Sounds scary, doesn't it? Suddenly, cops can just rip open any parked car and search it because they feel like it, right?
Well... no. If you bother to read the story, you'll find that the Supreme Court has allowed police to search the cars of suspects who have been arrested, provided the police have seen the suspect get out of that car prior to the arrest. Or, in other words, if police are about to pull over a suspect but he or she happens to park and get out of the car before the bust is made, the suspect's car is not thereby immune to search.
Funny how leaving out one important detail can turn a headline into an entirely different story, isn't it?
And, just because it's so damn amusing, here's this...
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