If you’re a police officer and you’re responding to a call, you tend to have a bias
standpoint, trying to protect the person in danger. Although their job is to protect and
serve, police officers also must be intelligent and knowledgeable in their procedures. They
tend to violate possible suspects of their human rights and because of that, the exclusionary
rule was put into the constitution next to the 4th amendment.
The constitution was made hundreds years ago to limit the size of government from getting
too big and having too much control on society. The amendments are a set of rules and
regulations that constricts the government and their power. One of them, the, 4th
amendment talks about the citizens right to security/protection against unreasonable search
and seizures. For example, if someone was a suspect of a crime and police came to the
house and wanted to arrest or search the house, they would need to have probably cause or
a search warrant, because the 4th amendment. However, as well as the constitution is
written, there were still a few loopholes dealing with the searching and seizures. In many
cases when someone is arrested, police would unlawfully take evidence or use statements
from the suspect, that at the time, were not legally able to use in court against them, but it
was being used anyway.
This issue was a grey area in the constitution until 1961 in the case Mapp vs. Ohio. Mapp
was being suspected with possible bomb treats and having some betting machines. When
