The difference between "I don't know" and "I thought it worked like this" is purely a matter of degrees of ignorance. It sounds like the cops were ignorant of t

The difference between "I don't know" and "I thought it worked like this" is purely a matter of degrees of ignorance. It sounds like the cops were ignorant of the law in the same way as someone who is completely unaware of it, just to a lesser degree. Unless they were misinformed about the origins of what they were looking at, it doesn't seem like it would be a matter of good faith, but purely negligence.