[flashbunny]

Ever watch cops? Quite a few. A lot of criminals are morons. They get caught for doing stupid things because they are stupid. Some of them think the cops won't find anything. If you're going to allege planting of evidence, that can be alleged during stops WITH probable cause and WITH warrants as well. So you might as well say "why do searches" because evidence could be planted there, too.

So to reverse the question, why would you want to completely deny this constitutionally valid tool from being used by trained officers?

[supercat]

So to reverse the question, why would you want to completely deny this constitutionally valid tool from being used by trained officers?

The primary reason the cops receive so-called consent for such searches is that people perceive that the cop will make their life miserable if they don't consent. There are enough cops who behave in such behavior that such a belief on the part of citizens is emminently reasonable.

So-called "consent searches" should be forbidden for the same reason that even consensual sexual relationships are forbidden at most companies and universities between people who are in a boss-subordinate or teacher-student relationship. There is a clear imbalance of power, and there is no way to tell whether the subordinate person is freely consenting to the other person's behavior or whether they are going along with it because they feel intimidated.