Police officers have a difficult job, for which they volunteer, for which they are trained on the taxpayers' tab, and performance of which is expected to be done with adherence to the law. All of it.

That includes the part about respecting a citizen's right to be left alone, and the part about putting up with a citizen who is rude, but otherwise not a threat, in his own home.

For people who are so fond of keeping government employees out of their bank accounts, conservatives seem OK with government employees not keeping out of another, more tangible form of physical property. It is, in fact, one of the oldest pieces of English common law to have crossed the Atlantic to be incorporated into American law.

"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter." --Prime Minister William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, 1763

Insofar as an officer of the law is ignorant of the law he is sworn to enforce, or seeks to use his office to enforce his will in disregard of the law, he has forfeited his right to stand for the authority of the law, and should be called to account by the citizens, his employers.