[Enterprise]

I think that the police have problems with violation of the law under color of authority and going beyond the scope of their duties. While they generally have immunity when a search warrant is issued, that immunity can be negated when there is deliberate deception. I think there will be terminations, criminal prosecutions and huge civil suits. And, assuming that the officers involved acted outside the scope of their duties, their department and municipality will not defend them.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I had a signed search warrant with my name on it, but with my previous address, a home in the same county that I had sold 18 mos before. They got this warrant on the word of bail enforcement agents from another state (other side of the country), who said they had information that a wanted fugitive (armed robbery, not even murder or rape) had made a phone call from my house. Of course, that never happened, but it didn't matter as they searched the address on the search warrant, failed to find their man, and then came to knock on my door at 2:00 am that night.

I did not let them in. But they came back the next morning with 6 cruisers and about a dozen cops who surrounded my house and stayed there for about half the day. The police couldn't tell me what phone number this alleged phone call was made from, nor would the bail agents discuss it with me.

I doubt most jurisdictions really make it difficult on cops to get search warrants, no matter how bogus their info is.