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> 3. It makes it easier for deliberately-lying officers to craft a falsehood, because they get a preview of "what a computer might easily detect" that they can
by avidiax 2y ago
> 3. It makes it easier for deliberately-lying officers to craft a falsehood, because they get a preview of "what a computer might easily detect" that they can work with to massage the result.
I think this is really key. The officer is going to see some boilerplate justifications and verbiage and not really consider whether those justifications really apply to this case. "Computer said so" will normalize all sorts of abuses, turning "is that marijuana I smell?" into "Responding officer detected a strong oder of illicit substances (marijuana) from the residence. Male subject #1 did not contest the finding, whereupon the responding officer established probable cause to a search of the residence..."