unlAWFUL POLICE searches

In the opinion pages of the New York Times you will find an editorial made available by their editorial board called The Supreme Court and Police Searches. The topic centers around the police and their ability to make arrests to help profit their investigations whether criminal or not. On top of this the Supreme Court is equally as guilty for bending the law to make exceptions for illegally obtained evidence. The case that is brought up is from Utah; where a man was arrested during a "routine check" all because he was under suspicion of being connected to a drug case. The authors also bring up the Fourth Amendment and how any evidence gained from this arrest would violate it. The whole point isn't about if the police got the "bad guy"! It's to point out that we cannot allow our police, the ones who are sworn to serve and protect us to simply walk among us and start working against us for their noble causes. I wholeheartedly agree with this argument. Should this behavior continue who knows what type of big brother environment we will end up in? This is also the concern and the reason for the ruling against allowing this type of governing to continue. Justice Sonia Sotomayor cleverly points out, “What stops us from becoming a police state and just having the police stand on the corner down here and stop every person, ask them for identification, put it through, and if a warrant comes up, searching them?” It is a behavior that had to be stopped and must be protected for the common person.