Police State, here we come

This time, I'm going to link to an article from a news site that (hopefully) doesn't flush its archives after a week.

It seems that the new and improved SCOTUS (that's Supreme Court of the United States for you political noobs) has gone against precedent, and weakened the protections in the 4th Amendment to the Constitution against unreasonable searches and seizures. The case centers on some asshole who, when the cops entered his home (with a legal search warrant and after knocking and announcing themselves), was surrounded with 23 bags of coke. The local judge threw out the evidence citing the police had not given the suspect ample time between announcing themselves and entering, the state Supreme Court disagreed, and the asshole appealed to the SCOTUS, who decided the "knock and announce" rule is unnecessary.

Here's the problem, though. This case is an extreme. Obviously, the evidence shouldn't have been thrown out. The judge who made the decision is an idiot, maybe he should have his license taken away or whatever. But weakening the Constitutional protections in the Bill of Rights? How is that a solution?

Justice Scalia wrote in his majority vote some bullshit about how people like this asshole still have the option of suing the city and the local police for violating his rights, and how internal police discipline and regulations will act as checks against "overly aggressive and reckless" behavior. My ass, it will. All I see is one less roadblock to cops busting down our doors whenever the hell they please and taking or doing whatever the hell they feel like. Last I checked, it isn't fucking 1984.