# can the police order you back into your own house, when they're arresting someone across the street?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 16, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-police-order-you-back-into-your-own-house-when-theyre-arresting-someone-across-the-street/655819 "2013-04-16T05:17:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-police-order-you-back-into-your-own-house-when-theyre-arresting-someone-across-the-street/655819/41 "2015-02-10T20:34:53Z")

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Here’s the thing. Cops have to both worry if you are going to be a threat to them AND if you are endangered. If a cop tells meto go back inside, I’m going to do it. Not because they have the “right” to order me to. They probably don’t. But because there could be bullets flying around.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-police-order-you-back-into-your-own-house-when-theyre-arresting-someone-across-the-street/655819/42 "2015-02-10T20:41:53Z")

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> [@Solidscooter](#):
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> It’s true. I’m a local anchor now but used to be a reporter. There were plenty of times where my photog and I were on public property, very far from a scene and police for whatever reason walked 1/2 a mile up the road to push us back.
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> I watched a video today in which a photog and reporter got the permission of a private landowner to be in their yard to do a live shot near a crime scene. The cop, on live television, put her hand over the lens and was screaming at them both to leave. Is she allowed to do ANY of that?

[And you don’t know this](https://www.aclu.org/kyr-photo)?

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