Comment by jcgrillo
1 month ago
Or you watch them, find out where the stash house is, and call in an "anonymous tip" to another agency. They get a warrant, raid the stash, and it's all above board (or near enough).
Parallel construction makes the mere existence of these data sets extremely dangerous.
Better hope the defense attorney doesn't ask who the caller was. Parallel construction is actually not legal and can result in evidence being inadmissible.
If the answer is "we don't know, they didn't leave their name" then it's deniable if not actually legal. That's a pretty low bar to jump. This anonymous tip --> raid scenario happens all the time, it's called "swatting".
What "anonymous" tip line run by law enforcement is not capturing caller ID and any other location that can be garnered during the call? If there are any, I'd say that is a total failure on the agency in question.
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