On 3-5-2010 23:12, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> I guess Warp's problem is that not only the police is 'punished' but 
>> the society as a whole even more.
> 
> It depends on whether you believe you caught the right person in the 
> first place.

The assumption was that they caught somebody with illegal substances, so 
yes they caught the right person.

> What lots of people seem to be forgetting in this thread is that by far, 
> the vast majority of the population is *not* breaking the law.  If there 
> were no limits on the techniques the police could use to find criminals, 
> then the 99% of the people who are law-abiding would be subject to the 
> same problems as the people who aren't. And the 99% of people who are 
> law abiding are willing to let the guy with an open bottle of beer in 
> the car go, so they don't get stopped and have the police rip *their* 
> car apart in order to see if maybe there's any pot in a little baggy in 
> the door panel or something.

You don't have to convince me. I just tried to explain what the problem 
might be. It is very common for people to not understand this (or that 
sentence ;) ). Often an underlying cause is that they see police as an 
abstract group outside and above the society and not realize that 
everyone of them is human. (Though, I assume nobody would express it 
that way).

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