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> It would be more honest and to just say cops have the right to search you at will. Except they explicitly do NOT have that power. They found a "trick" to pre
by brianwawok 5y ago
> It would be more honest and to just say cops have the right to search you at will.
Except they explicitly do NOT have that power. They found a "trick" to pretend like they are staying within the law, while really not.
- lovegoblin 5y agoExactly. Hence > It would be more honest
- RHSeeger 5y agoThey don't have the "right" to, they have the "ability to do so without repercussions".
- agency 5y agoThere is a view, called “legal realism”, that what the courts and law enforcement collectively do _is_ the law itself. The rules as they are written down are useful in predicting or convincing how judges or other actors in the system will act, but that it all they are.