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Because sometimes a police goof that goes public may hurt the victim more than the police. Many people would note that the police searched your house for child porn but many may fail to notice the police got a bogus address from a paid informer who needed money.

Plus I believe that stuff is often public knowledge, it's just not collected in an easy to use manner I would imagine.

It's not that warrants are bad, it's just that the abuse of warrants and SWAT being used for trivial warrants makes them seem bad.



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