On 3-5-2010 22:40, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>> Further, under US law, if they *did* find illegal substances in my 
>>> car, if the traffic stop was not legal, they would not be able to 
>>> prosecute because they would have lacked probable cause to pull me 
>>> over in the first place.
>>
>>   That's one thing I have never understood.
> 
> It discourages the police from breaking the law in the first place. In 
> practice, people aren't going to put police in jail or otherwise punish 
> them for catching criminals. If you believe there should be laws like 
> this in the first place, the only reasonable way to enforce them is to 
> take something away from the police when they break the rules, rather 
> than add something (like punishment) when they break the rules.

I guess Warp's problem is that not only the police is 'punished' but the 
society as a whole even more.

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