After reading the responces about Officer Savilli, I thought I would pose this question:
You're a cop.
Quiet night.
Car runs a red light.
Or is 20+/- mph over the posted limit.
You stop car and get valid ID from a nervous male driver who is Middle Eastern in appearence and speech.
The vehicle and tag come up clean, so does he.
But you "know" you've seen his face somewhere.
Newspaper, TV, somewhere.
You also "know" something is wrong by his nervous behaviour and sweaty face.
It's September after all, pretty cool out.
He answers "No!" when you ask if you can take a look in his vehicle.
Cognizant of his civil right to do this, you decide to give him a warning and send him on his way.
It is the evening of September 10, 2001, and it's not till days later that you realize who the driver, Mohammed Atta, really was.
Based on his behaviour, and your gut feelings, who amongst you would've,under some pretense, searched the car anyway?
Possibly finding multiple passports, a large amount of cash or a photo of him shaking hands with Bin Laden.
Something that might give you cause to detain him a bit longer and just possibly disrupt the plans he had for the next day, and give his partners cause to delay or abort altogether.
That is if they weren't all rounded up due to your illegal search.
How many of you would "trample" on someones "rights" if you knew that, by doing so, lives would be saved?
Speaking for myself, if it's gonna save lives, I don't give a %$#& what the law says.
Those lives might belong to my family, or yours.
But that's just me.
What would you do?
You're a cop.
Quiet night.
Car runs a red light.
Or is 20+/- mph over the posted limit.
You stop car and get valid ID from a nervous male driver who is Middle Eastern in appearence and speech.
The vehicle and tag come up clean, so does he.
But you "know" you've seen his face somewhere.
Newspaper, TV, somewhere.
You also "know" something is wrong by his nervous behaviour and sweaty face.
It's September after all, pretty cool out.
He answers "No!" when you ask if you can take a look in his vehicle.
Cognizant of his civil right to do this, you decide to give him a warning and send him on his way.
It is the evening of September 10, 2001, and it's not till days later that you realize who the driver, Mohammed Atta, really was.
Based on his behaviour, and your gut feelings, who amongst you would've,under some pretense, searched the car anyway?
Possibly finding multiple passports, a large amount of cash or a photo of him shaking hands with Bin Laden.
Something that might give you cause to detain him a bit longer and just possibly disrupt the plans he had for the next day, and give his partners cause to delay or abort altogether.
That is if they weren't all rounded up due to your illegal search.
How many of you would "trample" on someones "rights" if you knew that, by doing so, lives would be saved?
Speaking for myself, if it's gonna save lives, I don't give a %$#& what the law says.
Those lives might belong to my family, or yours.
But that's just me.
What would you do?
