Quite frankly because you do not know it. Do you know how many times a day a person’s fourth amendment rights are violated, over 1,000,000 times a day throughout this country on average?

This happens for three reasons, police officers do not know it, police officers do not care about it, and because you do not know it. During our Founder, Milford Hayes years of law enforcement, he doesn’t recall how many times he responded to a call and the number one statement he continually received from the citizens as he was trying to do his job was “I know my rights”, when in fact they did not. This lack of knowledge caused the citizen to resist or hinder an officer from doing their lawful duty and was arrested.

We’ve seen too many people voluntarily waive their fourth amendment rights for the purpose of proving they are innocent and have nothing to hide. Thinking that this will cause the Traffic stop or Detention on the street, to go faster, to prevent a stop from escalating, that was your thought, until you unknowingly met up with one of the many bad apples in law enforcement. Who lacks the training, education, and integrity to be enforcing the law?

Who will  more than happily take advantage of your voluntary consent, which means you waived your right of using the fourth amendment as a defense to suppress any evidence found that might have been illegally obtained or planted by the officer or found after you lied and said you did not have anything illegal on your person or in the vehicle.

To now find yourself in handcuffs and placed in the back of the patrol car headed to jail.