Jean Shipley (Brenda Scott) quotes the New Testament of the Bible (Ephesians 6:4) to justify the behavior of herself, her husband and their generation: "Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. The old ways are not their ways. Your dusk is their dawn. The future is theirs." Unfortunately for Jean (and the script writers), only the first sentence of her quotation actually appears anywhere in the Bible.
Joe and Bill approach the Shipley home on a tip that there may be a party going on that may include smoking marijuana. Without knocking or announcing who they are Joe just kicks the door open and they enter the house. No warrant, no announcement and some pitifully weak probable cause.
When shown the two whole and one partial marijuana cigarettes, Friday calls the partial a "roach," slang for the butt-end of a "joint." However, this "roach" looks to be torn from an unlit intact joint. When a joint is smoked, burned particulate matter darkens the rolling paper so the butt-end resembles a brown/black cockroach, thus the slang name roach. This "roach" has no smoke-darkened rolling paper.
Mrs. Shipley runs to check on her daughter who was left in the bathtub where it's discovered that she appears to have drowned. Joe and Bill make no attempt to check for a pulse or breathing. They do not perform CPR nor do they call an ambulance. They assume the child is dead and allow the mother to wrap a towel around the child's head and face. This is blatant contradiction of the training any police officer or first responder receives.