They raided a drug house to get him. I can’t imagine the senior figures involved would invest their limited resources to plan and execute such a thing if they only had probable cause.
Isn't that kind of the whole point of a warrant? The requirement for conviction is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. You need a warrant to get that proof.
Judges don’t sign warrants because there might be evidence, they sign warrants because the police are sure the evidence is going to be there, else they’re wasting time, effort, and resources in searching when it may not be there. Search warrants include what evidence the police expect to find.
In this particular instance, the warrant was no knock, a type of warrant issued when, among other things, there is the risk of evidence being destroyed if they announce their presence (presumably because that’s what the police said would happen) but the folks executing the warrant were told to announce themselves anyway, suggesting they didn’t need to worry about that because they had enough already.
Further, if they were so worried that Taylor was involved in some capacity with Glover’s dealings, and were not sure if they would find anything, she’s then free to destroy other evidence if they can’t arrest her for anything. The change to them having to announce themselves means they weren’t worried about, as does the fact she wasn’t named on the warrant.
They raided a drug house to get him. I can’t imagine the senior figures involved would invest their limited resources to plan and execute such a thing if they only had probable cause.
Isn't that kind of the whole point of a warrant? The requirement for conviction is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. You need a warrant to get that proof.
Exactly this. Arresting on probable cause while getting warrants to find the evidence is normal. I don't know, man (hector), if you are going to just keep refusing to understand how policing works, I don't know what to tell you.
For somebody who is apparently so protective of their own rights, you’re setting the bar for allowing the police to search property awfully low. Taylor knew Glover so it’s okay for them to execute a no knock warrant on her property at 1am to search for someone else’s drugs? Come on, man.
Again, you’re not going to commit operational resources to arrest someone unless you have enough evidence to charge them with something. They wouldn’t be tracking his movements enough to arrest him 10 miles away at the same time they were raiding Taylor’s apartment if they weren’t absolutely sure they could charge him with something,
anything, completely unrelated to the search in Taylor’s apartment because if they didn’t find anything (which is exactly what happened) they’ve wasted the resources for two (admittedly small-scale) operations and pissed off whichever judge they fooled into signing the warrants.
I understand what you’re saying regarding police work, but I think you’re oversimplifying it. Police work happens before the arrest, guys. If the police have committed resources to tracking someone, they’re not just going to arrest them and then hope to find evidence before they make bail or otherwise have to release them, and they’re certainly not going to raid every piece of property of everyone they know in order to find it.
No, they figure out relations between the suspect and other people so they can figure out if anyone else is involved in criminal activity, and certainly so they know what properties on which to execute search warrants.
