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Would it be illegal for a police car to park on your street and then follow you wherever you drove? -- nm

Posted by Max Sep 13 '11, 10:47

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- availability of resources is a question for the executive or legislative, not the judicial. if they can follow, you're public. - Max Sep 13, 10:50 19
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    - Then I think that's an error of judgement. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 10:54 17
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        how is something just if the government has only X budget to enforce something but then becomes unjust if the government had unlimited resources to - Max Sep 13, 10:59 12
        
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        we're outside my knowledge of legal terms and precedent, but that's a bullshit violation of good faith participation in a society governed by law. - Max Sep 13, 11:10 1
        
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        the answer is simple. there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in private, which is why - Max Sep 13, 11:06 7
        
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        No, that's what's funny. In doing genealogy you get a real sense that there was no damn privacy. - Max Sep 13, 11:13 5
        
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        but they aren't opening the car, just placing something on it. The police do search mail if they think it is an explosive or drugs don't they? -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 11:19 2
        
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        I can see the argument that attaching something to the car might be seen to unreasonably violate the integrity of personal property - znufrii Sep 13, 11:20
        
        are they looking in the car or just tracking its movements on public roads? there's a big difference there. -- nm - Max Sep 13, 11:18
        
        Makes perfect sense to me. (nm) - musubi Sep 13, 10:58 1
        
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        that's *my* job! -- nm - znufrii Sep 13, 10:55
- a team of cops could -- nm - Beaker Sep 13, 10:48

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