But the detective will need to observe you doing something that gives them probable cause for a search
Alternatively, once the detective has been "informed" that the suspect is already known to be guilty, and thus that their organization wants this person arrested and off the street, that detective may feel comfortable making statements and performing acts that they otherwise would not. In the simplest form: lie about it, but with clear conscience because you are doing so to convict a known criminal.
Anecdotal, but I recently spent my jury duty as foreman for a case where the police claimed that the defendant was transporting a legally-owned handgun in an illegal manner (loaded and in an unlocked case). For all I know, the defendant we unanimously found "not guilty" may have been correctly known to be on his way to commit a murder. But all of us on the jury concluded that the police who testified were simply lying about too many of the major details to be trusted.
And I don't mean poor recall: this was flat-out perjury that we felt contradicted the police's own photographic evidence. While my faith in the system is really shaken, I'd at least like to believe that the detectives felt they were doing "the right thing" by trying to put this person in jail. But it certainly gives me cause to worry about the side-effects of parallel construction. Given a preconception of guilt, how much farther will the local authorities feel comfortable "bending the rules" in ways that pervert the system to their advantage?
Alternatively, once the detective has been "informed" that the suspect is already known to be guilty, and thus that their organization wants this person arrested and off the street, that detective may feel comfortable making statements and performing acts that they otherwise would not. In the simplest form: lie about it, but with clear conscience because you are doing so to convict a known criminal.
Anecdotal, but I recently spent my jury duty as foreman for a case where the police claimed that the defendant was transporting a legally-owned handgun in an illegal manner (loaded and in an unlocked case). For all I know, the defendant we unanimously found "not guilty" may have been correctly known to be on his way to commit a murder. But all of us on the jury concluded that the police who testified were simply lying about too many of the major details to be trusted.
And I don't mean poor recall: this was flat-out perjury that we felt contradicted the police's own photographic evidence. While my faith in the system is really shaken, I'd at least like to believe that the detectives felt they were doing "the right thing" by trying to put this person in jail. But it certainly gives me cause to worry about the side-effects of parallel construction. Given a preconception of guilt, how much farther will the local authorities feel comfortable "bending the rules" in ways that pervert the system to their advantage?