The mindset of "This resolved to a house with kids, we need to move now" cuts both ways. When they screw it up, they vastly, vastly increase the amount of time

The mindset of "This resolved to a house with kids, we need to move now" cuts both ways. When they screw it up, they vastly, vastly increase the amount of time it takes before they actually go after the correct location - which might very well have children as well. By cutting corners, they do nothing but inflate their own egos and feed their own lust for persecution, destroying innocent lives in their wake. They do not help abused children. At all. Since the 1990s I have been very bothered by the practice law enforcement follows of using IP addresses as evidence against people. I can't imagine how many fathers have had their lives ruined because their young teen son went searching for something they shouldn't have, or because someone used their open wifi connection, or routed through them via malware, or spoofed that IP address, etc. There are multitudes of ways in which it might not point to the right person. And it is very important to remember that when you act on information that points at an innocent person - you are protecting the actual offender. You are shielding them from prosecution. You are guaranteeing that they remain available to continue to commit the crime you are investigating. I would think, just generally, police would be motivated to not be providing that sort of shielding... but getting those headlines seems to just be so damned tempting...