soon enough medical personnel might be able to save them. Although there may be cases in which officers have sufficient information to support a conclusion that a person inside a residence is suffering from a drug overdose and immediate intervention is required, this record does not support such a conclusion. {28} We recognize that officers in the field are confronted with a wide variety of situations in which the welfare of an occupant of a residence may be in question. There may be an element of uncertainty and the facts may not be entirely clear. In some situations, danger may be more apparent; police may hear screams, or threats of violence, and the need for immediate intervention may be more readily apparent. See, e.g., State v. Drennan, 278 Kan. 704, 101 P.3d 1218, 1232-33 (2004) (<HOLDING>). See generally LaFave, supra, § 6.6(a), at
holding that defendant had not violated probation condition prohibiting violent or threatening behavior when he was simply mouthing off to his girlfriend and did not intend to put his probation officer in fear of harm holding entry was justified where police knew of prior history of domestic violence between the defendant and his livein girlfriend a neighbor reported hearing an argument a woman scream and then silence no one responded when the officer knocked at the door and when the defendant finally appeared he was unresponsive to questions and refused to say where his girlfriend was holding that the evidence was sufficient to preclude inference where defendant believed house to be that of his girlfriend and nothing in the dwelling had been disturbed holding that the seizure of a shotgun that the police found while searching a house a few minutes after the defendant and his girlfriend were removed and put into police cars could not be justified as a search incident to his arrest holding that the plaintiff has set forth a cognizable claim that the officer violated his fourth amendment right when the officer knocked on the plaintiffs motel door and replied that he was maintenance and that he was there to fix the sink