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So you would be comfortable with police essentially randomly selecting people to arrest for various unsolved crimes? And we'll just let the courts sort it out?
by drblast 7y ago
So you would be comfortable with police essentially randomly selecting people to arrest for various unsolved crimes? And we'll just let the courts sort it out?
The reason the fourth amendment exists is exactly to prevent this sort of thing.
- adossi 7y agoConsidering a large percentage of inmates have yet to be charged with a crime this would probably be incredibly lucrative for the prison industry.
- josinalvo 7y agoNo, but it is my understanding that to even detain a person you need to meet some standard of evidence. I am saying: let the police use whatever lead generating method they can, as long as they are not using it as evidence to detain, search, or imprison. That is, their system can be whatever they want to generate a list of names. Afterwards, they need evidence to search a persons house, or to detain them, or to arrest them. (In legal lingo: I am okay with them using these methods, as long as they are not considered probable cause https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-police-can-make-arrest-probable-cause.html https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-police-can-make...)
- thinkcontext 7y agoFor looking for leads in an investigation it doesn't seem that different from having a person look through mugshot books. I agree it gets very sticky when figuring out where it appropriate to use it as evidence for a warrant or in a trial.