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LordOpie
02-27-2007, 06:10 PM
Michigan courts are forcing the issue into a gray area... SCOTUS ruling. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-1360.ZS.html)

A guy wasn't served a warrant properly and tried to suppress the evidenced seized.

Now, I'm all for eliminating technicalities. If you are hiding a crime that's discovered improperly, well, you still commited the crime, yeah?

While I suspect some cops still suck and most are good, decent people trying to do right, there's some validity to privacy protection.

Should we strictly enforce proper procedure? Or maybe loosen it up a bit with penalties when cops are wrong?
stinkyboy
02-27-2007, 06:28 PM
WTF Michigan? (http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-8/117231576565120.xml&coll=4)
Silver
02-27-2007, 06:31 PM
What happened to the cops that didn't serve the warrant properly? Do they get fired? I've never heard of that happening, correct me if I'm wrong though...That's why proper procedure is important. It's the only way to make the police play by the rules.
LordOpie
02-27-2007, 06:40 PM
WTF Michigan? (http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-8/117231576565120.xml&coll=4)

There's nothing like the love of man's best friend.

Come on, you mean you never got a little stiffy when you watched Scooby-Doo?

What happened to the cops that didn't serve the warrant properly? Do they get fired? I've never heard of that happening, correct me if I'm wrong though...That's why proper procedure is important. It's the only way to make the police play by the rules.
I've heard of it happening many times. I think they're disciplined -- written up. Enough times, they get fired.
Silver
02-27-2007, 07:32 PM
I've heard of it happening many times. I think they're disciplined -- written up. Enough times, they get fired.

Any sort of source? A cursory googling doesn't turn up much for me.
binary visions
02-27-2007, 09:53 PM
Any sort of source? A cursory googling doesn't turn up much for me.

I had a friend who was in a local police department. According to him, it varies from place to place what the specifics are - generally, serious violations in procedure are written up just as if you'd be written up during a major f**kup on the job and just like at any other place of business, you're only allowed a certain number of writeups before you get canned, more or less depending on the severity of the screwups.

Sorry, no written source, just a guy who'd been on the force a few years chatting with me. He indicated that, to the best of his knowledge, it wasn't law, just policy.