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German polizei search culture blows my mind though.

When festival buses are going to Fusion Festival (think Burning Man), it's common knowledge that half the buses will be stopped and "controlled", i.e. warantless search of all the passengers' belongings. That my German friends think this is normal or acceptable just blows my mind.

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Searching buses and passenger cars is quite common in Belgium as well, "probable cause" is enough, and we all know how easy it is to find probable cause.

it’s getting even worse, in addition to warrantless action, they are getting looser and looser with granting warrants. A few years back, someone called their Mayor a willie/"pimmel" on twitter and got his house raided.

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