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This whole thing makes me think warrant review process by Judges needs to be re-done from the ground up. Potentially 2 different judges? 3? different areas?
by coding123 3y ago
This whole thing makes me think warrant review process by Judges needs to be re-done from the ground up. Potentially 2 different judges? 3? different areas?
- olliej 3y agoThe core issue with warrants is that definitionally the police don't yet have direct evidence so can only provide "probable cause" or whatever for the warrant. But "probable cause" seems to have devolved to a police officer says that there's probable cause, and swears that they're not lying. There is no actual penalty for a PO lying, and the judges are trained to just believe what they're told, after all in many (most?) cases the police are definitionally asking for a warrant because they don't have evidence. This all ignores the copious evidence that police are not able to avoid just claiming "probable cause" any time they need to (take stop and frisk, where being black was probable cause, numerous examples of traffic stops turning into unwarranted searches, etc)