Friday, May 09, 2025

If the police are to visit someone's house for a questioning, a raid or to serve a warrant, do they jam the signal to their video doorbell so that the suspect monitoring the doorbell with their smartphone doesn't get tipped off about the cops' presence this way?

 

If the police are to visit someone's house for a questioning, a raid or to serve a warrant, do they jam the signal to their video doorbell so that the suspect monitoring the doorbell with their smartphone doesn't get tipped off about the cops' presence this way?

If the suspect is not home for whatever reason, and they see that cops are at the door through their video doorbell's camera feed, they may stay somewhere else until the cops go away, or flee the area and disappear from the law.

Or if they're home, and for example, they have to get rid of their drugs, they flush them down the toilet as soon as they see cops on the video feed before they answer their door.

So do you jam their video doorbell's signal when you get to their door?

Or do you let yourselves be seen on their video doorbell?

Also, if their voice comes on the speaker and says "I'm not home, what do you need?" What is your response right then?

If you're wondering "Why are YOU worried about this?" Great question; it's because I, a member of the Anti-Trump Establishment, am paranoid that Trump will soon dismantle democracy and make criticizing and dissing him a criminal offense, even retroactively. I've already posted criticisms of him on social media, so that could be why the cops will someday pick me up, along with millions of other outspoken anti-Trump citizens.

Even though I'll gladly go to jail for dissing and criticizing our idiot president, since Democratic employers will be MORE likely to hire me due to seeing THAT on my criminal record, I'll likely drive somewhere else if I see through my doorbell's video feed that the cops show up at my apartment for this reason, while I'm away from home.

 

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[–]anoncop4041Police Officer 18 points  

Brother, I’m saying this because I care. Seek professional mental help.

[–]5usDomesticus 3 points  

You're extremely paranoid and spend too much time on Reddit. That's simply not happening.

But to answer your question; we'll knock the camera out and we're coming in if we have a warrant regardless of if you say you're home or not.

[–]Philly5-0 2 points  

Unless you’re on a terrorist watch list or something crazy no department is going to spend the resource for something like that

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[–]Witty_Flamingo_36 2 points  

Ignoring the second half because it isnt germane to the question, usually the SOP is just to cover it or stay out of sight. If the person is wanted bad enough or they have other reasons, it wouldn't surprise me if some urban departments used wifi de auth tools to knock out wifi cameras. I'd shit and fall over if any agency in my state did though. It's not really jamming, it just boots everything off the wifi. 

As for the response to "I'm not home", it depends on the type of warrant and the totality of circumstances. Search warrant for a person? Doesn't matter,  coming in. Arrest warrant? Depends on whether there exists enough evidence that the person is inside. An arrest warrant doesn't automatically grant entry, but if you're at their house, with their car in the drive, at an hour you'd expect a person to be home? Or if you saw them go in or a neighbor says they saw them? Yeah, coming in. 

[–]Kind_Lavishness9919 2 points  

I can tell a pedophile when I see one.

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