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In reply to the discussion: Police can stop vehicles based on anonymous 911 tips, justices rule [View all]nilesobek
(1,423 posts)48. There is a mentally unstable
person in this town who calls the police 100s of times a month to "report a crime." The police have spent a lot of money and heartache investigating her false, "reports." I know of people who have had their lives ruined by this psycho.
She has wild stories of drunken orgies and "crack machines." There has been actual harmful SWAT raids over her false reports, with injuries.
Now the Supreme idiots made it legal.
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So if I'm a cop and want to stop a car for no reason, just a quick phone call subs for a warrant?
Scuba
Apr 2014
#2
No--you are conflating stop and inquire with a Carroll search. If you need a warrant to search
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#7
Trust me..the heavy drinking only starts when you find yourself agreeing with Alito
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#41
Indeed--kind of the point of Scalia's dissent, to which Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor joined.....
msanthrope
Apr 2014
#9
This is the new America, the truth is that a cop can pull you over for no reason,
olddad56
Apr 2014
#12
"You were weaving" is always a favorite, along with "you went over the yellow line" nt
7962
Apr 2014
#32
Well I saw what I believe could be pot in Justice Thomas's car. Somebody call the cops! Nope! No....
marble falls
Apr 2014
#33
Cool. I just anonymously called 911 on a local conservative bigot, right after I dropped a bag of
Zorra
Apr 2014
#40
What does the Fascist 5 on the SCOTUS know about the US Constitution/Bill of Rights, anyway?!?!
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2014
#46