Abstract
This paper examines and responds to the views expressed in "Bright Lines, Blanket Rules and the Fourth Amendment: The Supreme Court's Half‐hearted Endorsement of the Knock and Announce Rule.” A drug war mentality is not driving the United States Supreme Court to surrender individual rights to the interests of law enforcement. A major assault upon Fourth Amendment protections is not taking place and the Court's recent rulings pertaining to the applicability of the “knock and announce” rule in Wilson v. Arkansas and Richards v. Wisconsin are reasonable and consistent efforts designed to appropriately balance law enforcement interests and individual rights. Wilson and Richards are actually limitations upon law enforcement and the United States Supreme Court has enthusiastically and reasonably endorsed the common law “knock and announce” rule.
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