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It's a show of force. "Look we have big strong men with le guns and the neat jack boots, we can send 12 of them in for every one of you." Whether it is actual
by mothballed 9mo ago
It's a show of force. "Look we have big strong men with le guns and the neat jack boots, we can send 12 of them in for every one of you." Whether it is actually needed for evidence is immaterial to that.
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- swiftcoder 9mo agoIt can be both things at once. It obviously sends a message, but hey, maybe you get lucky, and someone left a memo in the bin by the printer that blows the case wide open.
- otherme123 9mo agoOr maybe they are storing documents with secrets in a room or even in the bathroom.
- Teever 9mo agoIf law enforcement credibily believes that criminals are conspiring to commit a crime and are actively doing so in a particular location what is wrong with sending armed people to stop those criminal acivities as well as apprehend the criminals and what ever evidence of their crimes may exist? If this isn't the entire purpose of law enforcement then what is exactly?
- mothballed 9mo agoNo, a search warrant isn't intended to [directly] apprehend criminals, though an arrest warrant may come later to do that.
- Teever 9mo agoBut one could reasonably assume that a location that is known to be used for criminal activity and that likely has evidence of such criminal activity likely also has people commiting crimes. When police raid a grow-op they often may only have a search warrant but they end up making several arrests because they find people actively commiting crimes when they execute the warrant.