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    Default Re: Police on Private Property

    what if a neighbor hears a scream. but its on TV and call the police? can they ask to come in and look around? sometimes you have the volume set to normal levels but the studio has enhanced the volume and effect of the scream scene and with todays TVs and surround sounds..it can be seemingly realistic.
    then again if youre watching a movie are you legally required to answer the knock at your door?

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    It would take more than a single scream to get the police out there. And you would have to have one nosy and pretty stupid neighbor. You don't have to let the police into your house on such a flimsy pretense. What they might do then though is debatable.

    Down south recently there was the boy that was kidnapped by the pizza guy and then another boy. The first boy was raped and tortured repeatedly, crying and screaming bloody murder. This was in a cheap apartment building. The neighbors heard it all and NOBODY called the police.

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    what if a neighbor hears a scream. but its on TV and call the police? can they ask to come in and look around?
    If they have sufficient probable cause to articulate a public safety exception to the warrant rule or consent, then, yes.

    After all, how are the police to know the scream was from a television until after they look in to it.

    then again if youre watching a movie are you legally required to answer the knock at your door?
    No. But, if a neighbor hears a scream, calls the police,the police arrive and hear a loud TV with no answer at the door, they may very well force entry.

    - Carl

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