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But should we allow the police to threaten people with overbroad warrants?

"Gives us the data on these 8 people, or we'll get a warrant for it."

vs.

"Gives us the data on these 8 people, or we'll get a warrant to confiscate all your servers, computers, laptops, and phones."

And getting a warrant is not as large a barrier as people like to believe: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...

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In Germany the police can threaten all they want, getting a warrant for user data is the prosecutor's job. That's also why don't give out the data directly the police. If the prosecutor is asking that's a totally different level than the police.

It might also be an indication that the police doesn't risk wasting the judge's time and get shitted on if they don't have rock solid reasons for suspecting someone.

Is a bit over 20k drug related warrants over 10 years really that much for the country the size of USA with such a drug problem and such an axe to grind with drugs users (war on drugs, private prisons, blacks with crack and teens with weed being juicy targets to boost statistics, etc.)?

Or 1300 warrants and 600 extensions in one fiscal year for a 'black bag job search' across all circuits?

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