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  • 2 - Police ≠ Community Caretakers

  • from Part I - Policing
  • Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    Rehabilitating Criminal Justice
    Published online:
    17 April 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025, pp 23-38

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 confronts another common police practice, often called “caretaking,” that involves searches purportedly carried out to provide aid to citizens. Because these searches can be used as pretexts to carry out illegitimate and sometimes deadly agendas, this practice too needs to be curtailed. The seeds for doing so are found in Caniglia v. Strom, the recent Supreme Court decision rejecting a freestanding caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement. Properly construed, Caniglia would significantly limit police-initiated searches and seizures for benign or “regulatory” purposes unrelated to criminal law enforcement. This interpretation also provides doctrinal support for the fledgling movement to de-police those government services that, whatever might be the tradition, do not require the intervention of armed individuals trained to fight crime.