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Anyone know why a cop might want to do be able to do this?
by luxuryballs 3y ago
Anyone know why a cop might want to do be able to do this?
- timothyduong 3y agoView messages, photos, calls, data. Was very common for drug dealers to break their phones on being caught
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- luxuryballs 3y agoSo if it’s to gather evidence then why shouldn’t they need a warrant?
- meepmorp 3y agoTo get access to the information on the phone?
- luxuryballs 3y agowell yeah but to what end?
- meepmorp 3y agoPresumably to look for evidence of criminal activity.
- luxuryballs 3y agoyet no warrant required to search your records and files, do they at least need probable cause? yet I don’t even know what probable cause would be for digital files, it’s not like they can smell drugs coming out of your phone
- enterprise_cog 3y ago[dead]
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoBad cops (and I assume this can easily worm its way into the culture of a department/division/unit rather than being a strictly individual bias) have a long history of using just about any convenient lever within reach to apply more scrutiny to people who they already believe are guilty of something, regardless of whether the justification is supported by any objective facts or sound reasoning. Classic examples include planting evidence, "smell of marijuana", and "furtive movements", but there are countless other tactics. The "good" cops might be reluctant to push back on this pattern because they see value in having such tactics in their back pocket for extraordinary circumstances (cf. the various "is torture justified in a ticking-time-bomb scenario" debates and thought experiments, or just most seasons of 24).
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