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Originally posted by Spanky
Normally I would agree with you. But I think that if you charged the police $100,000 for every illegal search and also dock the paycheck of the cops there would not be that many illegal searches.
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If you could ever get that passed into law, I might agree with you. (I suspect there might be other unintended consequences.) You could also do this in _addition_ to the exclusionary rule, to properly incentivize the public servants.
However, my point was simply that I really do think that the exclusionary rule reduces the number of illegal searches and seizures, and thus is beneficial. There may be other ways to get to that result -- but I can't think of others that a Court can establish and enforce.
S_A_M
