[One Name]

The placed on “ administrative leave” piece is the key. If I were laid off due to budget cuts I might go purchase some recreational items to go spend my new found leisure time with- none of their business. If I had a threatening blow-up with a supervisor or co-workers and was relieved of duty it could and should be viewed differently.

Most of us want the authorities to be responsive to the Islamic radical or the abusive live-in so we have to give them some gray area to operate.

A Libertarian on the surface could proclaim police state abuse but if it was your sister’s ex one might perhaps be less dispassionate.

['smith]

I am an Oregon FFL and deal with the authorities all the time, and in my experience the are capable, caring, good people, HOWEVER, that does not give them extralegal authority to detain/arrest a citizen who has committed no crime. Simple.

[TankerKC]

...we have to give them some gray area to operate.

Pure BS.

...but if it was your sister’s ex one might perhaps be less dispassionate.

Only if you are weak and have no principles.