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>>_delir+(OP)
> The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists.

Wow, unreal that she could approve such a warrant. Even in the absence of a federal statute it seems like a crazy step to take.

>>wyldfi+X3
I’d love to see stats on what % of search warrants are NOT signed off by a judge (I’d bet hardly any), and how many search warrants later found to be inaccurate, end up with disciplinary action towards the police (I’d bet almost none).

The 4th amendment isn’t worth anything if judges will sign off on everything that crosses their desk.

>>efitz+7I1
Well good.

If there was a statistically relevant problem, we wouldn’t hear about this sort of malfeasance in the news.

The fact that there is almost always one or another incident making the news only indicates that rare events occur frequently at sufficiently large scale.

The overwhelming majority of search and arrest warrants are authorised because they should be, and, well, like any job role, mistakes shouldn’t be dealt with by disciplinary action that results in the work being ground to a halt.

Where serious wrong doing occurs we should expect disciplinary action, and we do see that occasionally as it makes the news.

There’s definitely an argument to be made that maybe some police are too prone to abuse their powers, but the answer isn’t perfect law enforcement, the answer is how much malfeasance and corruption is tolerable, because we’ll never have none, and the only thing worse than corruption is perfect law enforcement.