Comment on Does it happen when the law arrest a drug kingpin or whatever and they off the cops something like 10mil a piece to let him/her go? Has anyone ever actually taken it? Or is movie trope?

• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He dumped the guy’s phone as part of investigating the domestic violence incident.

  He was asking for trouble by doing his job?

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Without a warrant, sure. Sounded like he was just going through someone’s phone.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In my country you wouldn’t even be able to get a warrant for this when it’s about domestic violence.

      Maybe only when there’s actual threats that the victim has removed from their phone, which are likely to still exist on the senders phone. But even that is a stretch and a warrant for the data on social media services is far more likely.

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