I choose to be on the "dark side" which the majority of the comments here disagree with me. If a police pull you over, don't look for verbal fight. Yes, you sh

I choose to be on the "dark side" which the majority of the comments here disagree with me. If a police pull you over, don't look for verbal fight. Yes, you should ask "wassup, officer, what's the matter?". But don't start saying "I want a lawyer" if this is some speeding ticket or some ID check. Doing so is stupid - you are wasting police force patrolling. We got a lot of knockout game assault lately. I want more police patrolling. More. Be clever. Just turn on video recorder on your cell phone and walk to the police. If you feel uncomfortable and you feel harassed, sure, use your right and tell the police you want a lawyer. People have always distrust the authority, but ironically they always want more protections. I have dealt with quite a few police officers in my life and I find all of them friendly and reasonable. Just remain clam. Guys have pressures too - getting yell at and middle finger at every single fucking day on the street, worrying the next big time crime comes up at their face and die while enforcing law. Yes, there are some assholes among the polices, but the majority are just everyone else's friend and family. We have assholes in IT, in fire fighters, in the army, in the government, in schools, in everywhere. Whatever reason is behind this "unreasonable searches", let the story reveal on the news then. Let a general attorney get involved. On the other hands, I think it is reasonable for a police to actually ask to check if the contents have been wiped out or not. If you were told X person has decrypted the card and played the videos, you as the state probably want to ensure this content has not been saved in any more device. Yes, sounds stupid, but I think that's reasonable. Think about this - a child was raped and a cracker hacked into X's computer and distributed this file - is that bad? I am not saying the whole questioning family and friend is reasonable, I am not a law enforcer, but the other parts still seem reasonable. -- EDIT -- I actually was a whistleblower myself once. I did the same thing the OP did. I turned in a child pornography evidence. Well, a bunch of people did because this was distributed online. At the time I was just a high school kid and I was managing a popular discussion forum. It was reported by some members on our forum and as a manager I decided to turn this over to the Taiwanese police by pointing them where this source was discovered. I submitted anonymously, however. I still encourage people to be a whistleblower / be a good citizen / good person at some point. We need to arrest these horrible assholes.