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Consider the following: there is a masked hero who breaks into crackhouses and drug dens, obtains evidence that the authorities were unable to legally acquire,
by jlgreco 13y ago
Consider the following: there is a masked hero who breaks into crackhouses and drug dens, obtains evidence that the authorities were unable to legally acquire, and then promptly hands this evidence over to authorities. The identity of the masked hero is unauditable.
Can we spot the potential for abuse?
- runn1ng 13y agoYou just described Batman.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoHe also just described a team of mercenaries paid under the table by the police to break the law with impunity.
- jlgaddis 13y ago> ... a team of mercenaries paid under the table by the police ... Or, you know, the police themselves.
- trevelyan 13y agoYes. Christopher Nolan made his character a villain for this very reason: http://popupchinese.com/the-dark-knight-rises.html http://popupchinese.com/the-dark-knight-rises.html No accident that the third film starts with a CIA rendition sequence (the state has devolved into a vigilante actor on the same moral level as Batman or Bane -- "no lawyers [and] no due process"). Meanwhile, we see politicians govern by lying on television ("theatricality and deception") while the justice system has become a monster under the Dent law ("a law with teeth", "based on a lie", etc.).
- devindotcom 13y agoBatman being a "political liability" characterized as a villain and threat by the government and authorities is not exactly an invention of Nolan's... it's one of the central concepts to the Batman character, has been for decades.
- tzs 13y agoI have a vague recollection that admissibility of evidence gathered by anonymous super-heros was discussed in depth somewhere at the "Law and the Multiverse" blog [1] but I can't find the article now. [1] http://lawandthemultiverse.com http://lawandthemultiverse.com
- colanderman 13y agoThis is sort-of what bounty hunters do: unlike law enforcement, they can enter private property without a warrant to apprehend their target.