Comment by JumpCrisscross

> why is it not a law that the government can't pay another entity to do something it's not allowed to do itself, without a warrant?

I think the median American favors security over freedom right now. The reality of cable news and now social media is that an unsolved crime is a national anxiety. When we’re whipped into a collective panic like that, it seems outright ridiculous that the cops not be allowed to access anything that could help.