Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car

QUESTION PRESENTED This Court has recognized a “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement that permits officers to conduct warrantless inventory searches of vehicles that have been lawfully impounded for reasons unrelated to criminal investigations. To pass Fourth Amendment muster, such inventory searches must adhere to standardized criteria that limit an individual officer’s discretion in conducting the search. See Colorado v. Bertine, 479 U.S. 367, 374 (1987). The question presented is: Whether the Fourth Amendment likewise mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer’s antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car. i