“Nevermind if you’re doing anything wrong now, I want to find something to charge you with.”
A warrant indicates you have already been "charged" or are "wanted" in connection to a prior crime. Cops perform that function as a matter of course during a potential traffic violation.
And if there were, I'd want them off the street, wouldn't you???
If a citizen is not breaking the law, there is no excuse for an officer to detain them and seek reason to take them into custody.
I’m not trying to give you a hard time, but if you see this as okay, why not place a permanent checkpoint along the highway and run records for every citizen who passes?
You ask, shouldn’t I be glad to have the bad eggs taken into custody? Yes, I guess I would be. Going with that assurance would be my constitutional right to free association.
Once you start infringing on our right to free passage, we are no longer free. We must prove that we are not criminals at the whim of a government official.
That’s not freedom. That makes you subservient to the state.
Our Constitution is unique in that it limits government and guarantees our rights. In your model (loosely), this limits our freedom and guarantees the government’s rights.
That’s my take on it. Look, if someone is engaged in clear violations of the law, I think they’re fair game. These women weren’t in clear violation of the law.
He hoped to find out they had robbed some store down the highway.
No luck evidently...