Did you know the police can enter your home and videotape what's happening there? Legally?

A federal appeals court ruled last week that police can secretly videotape a suspect’s home without a warrant. In a case about the suspected sale of bald eagle feathers and pelts – a misdemeanor crime — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that undercover police admitted into the suspect’s home as interested buyers of pelts did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they secretly videotaped the suspect’s home. ...Think Progress

Much more appropriate would be videocams on at all times on the police. 

When did we turn the Constitution inside out?

Comments

[Eric Buddington]

I think your title is hyperbolic; the officer (undercover) was invited into the home by the defendant, and secretly recorded a transaction there.

I don't think it's surprising that the police can enter any home when invited. I'm less happy about the secret recording; here in Massachusetts, it's a crime to secretly record a conversation, even by one of the parties involved, even when the recordee is an official on the job.

My personal morality says that the police should need a warrant to do anything that would be illegal for me to do.