In what can best be described as “desperation” in the face of the D.C. v. Heller case, the D.C. Police plan to go door-to-door, asking for permission to search residents’ homes for illegal guns and drugs.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced several new initiatives today aimed at combating gun crimes, including one encouraging residents to submit to voluntary searches of their homes in exchange for amnesty if the residents have illegal guns or drugs.

Right. “Submit” to “voluntary” searches for things that shouldn’t be illegal in the first place.

There won’t be any pressure, I’m sure. The police will never get suspicious if a nervous resident turns down them down. The residents will just assume that the cops will just forget — they won’t record who assents and who doesn’t. And we all know, if there is one group of people who trust the police to protect them, it’s the people in the poor, urban neighborhoods.

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