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Originally Posted by dalakhani

I can see both sides and from a common sense perspective, Roberts has it right.

However, I can see the other side as well. How much power do we give our police officers? Do they have the right to randomly shakedown innocent citizens because something is handed over? It could have been anything.

You are going down a very slippery slope when you start putting too much power into the hands of police officers.

You also are going down a slippery slope by giving criminals the benefit of the doubt because cops dont have superpowers to see through things. It is impossible to perfectly balance the difference but in a drug infested area a "transaction" that looks like a drug deal and smells like a drug deal is usually a drug deal. If they "shakedown" innocent people, they do let them go no? At some point the citizen has to have some responsibility over their actions. If I carry a toy gun into a bank I would expect to encounter trouble.