"Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering

[Lee-Lee]

28. This kind of stuff is done on the local level too

I am against it as it is being done here, for sure. But police in every department will use pretext stops to stop a vehicle they have information that may have drugs, the driver have warrants, be drunk, etc.

One example- a bartender at a biker bar would often drop a text if she thought somebody was leaving the bar DUI. No way she could have stopped them in that environment, and had the officers listed her as the informant she would have at a minimum lost her job and not been able to help get more drunks off the road, if not saw repercussions from the clientele there.

So when she reported one they looked for it, watched until they had a good, legitimate reason to initiate a traffic stop, and went from there.

The key was making sure that the reason for the traffic stop was good enough to stand on its own in court.

The big difference here is this was a person voluntarily reporting observations of behavior in a public place, and not info gathered from deep spying on people.