> Warrant means an audit trail and coordination with a prosecutor and the judiciary. But depending on the workload of these people, this can also mean a whole

> Warrant means an audit trail and coordination with a prosecutor and the judiciary. But depending on the workload of these people, this can also mean a whole lot of back-log and result in hasty decision making. Germany has a similar trend where judges are supposed to issue warrants for pretty much everything, like searching your house. The problem in actual practice with this is that German judges are already overloaded with all kinds of work, which means they have on average around 3 minutes to process a search-warrant request, that time also includes writing the explanation for why it was denied if it should be denied. 3 minutes isn't a lot of time and getting it wrong can have pretty hefty consequences for the wrongly accused because these days it's often routine to confiscate all the IT hardware and any data media they find. If you are somebody who's self-employed and working in IT, such a search could literally be the end of your business, because it will be years (and many lawyer fees) before you get your stuff back, even if it turns out you never did anything wrong.