A poll about random searches

[RoeBear]

Poll question: A poll about random searches

How many people think that law enforcement officers should be able to do random searches of your home car and person without any reason to think that you have committed a crime (probable cause)?

How about if we are talking about your employer as far as your person (at work)and car (on the employers parking lot)go?

[RC]

1. And who decides probable cause?

Hopefully not the police doing the search and certainly not the employer, who has no right to do so.

[RoeBear]

2. Kick...

...and i'd lke to see a few more comments too.

THX

[MrSlayer]

3. Hell No.

I don't want anyone searching me, my house or my car without a signed search warrant. Why would anyone agree to be searched at random for no reason?

[RoeBear]

4. One of the things an employer will do is...

...have you sign a pre-employment contract giving them permission to search your car at any time. If you don't sign, you don't get the job.
Sounds like extortion to me.

[MrSlayer]

5. Yeah that's bullshit.

Nazi bastards.

[amazona]

6. because people are weiinies i guess

I have been asked to give permission for a search. I said no. They kept asking. I kept politely saying no. The cops went on to an easier victim.

I don't understand the mentality of someone who won't speak up and say, "No, thank you" just because the person asking the favor is wearing a uniform. What really gets my goat is the people who consent to search who have drugs, money, or other contraband in the car. Why oh why didn't they "just say no?"

The cops might have searched anyway, but at least they would have a chance that the cops would either go away or see the evidence dismissed for illegal search without proper probable cause. You sign that piece of paper giving consent to a search, and you're effed.

And the majority of people, even trained professional criminals, if a cop asks the question, they just fall in line and say, "Yes." It gives you no hope for human nature because most people truly are sheeple.

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[RoeBear]

8. Here's one good reason to not give

permission to have your car searched.

You may have 'nothing to hide' but what if one of your kids borrowed the car. Now maybe you're pretty safe in assuming that your kid wouldn't have any drugs, but what if your child gives a friend a ride and the friend drops a joint in your car.

How do you explain that to your boss or a cop?

[GetTheRightVote]

7. Never trust anyone with your freedoms are they will disappear behind

their own opinions of right and wrong which may not match your own as long as you do not break the law.

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