1) OTHER BRANCHES. YES, YOU. Stop not checking earnestly if your stuff is constitutional.

2) And just because courts say it is doesn't mean they're right. Stuff is overturned a lot. USE YOUR BRAIN
"at the very moment technology is making it easier for the police to get warrants, judges are tripping over themselves to excuse them."
"After all, how could it be that the favored alternative to a search based on a valid warrant was a search based on no warrant at all?"
"Between 2004 and 2011 there were more than 4 million similar stop-and-frisk actions documented by the NYPD and apparently countless undocumented ones as well"

They found guns in fewer than 0.1% of stops
.@barryfriedman1's book details the many ways in which racial profiling doesn't even work
Also no evidence to show we need to be drug testing
More on profiling
Also helped me wrap my head around Katz
I struggle with a norms-based approach to 4A, but it's compelling
Problems with suggesting tech aiding police is the same as them just doing their jobs
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