[fusslo]

> The warrants included a search through all of her photos, videos, emails, text messages, and location data over a two-month period, as well as a time-unlimited search for 26 keywords, including words as broad as “bike,” “assault,” “celebration,” and “right,” that allowed police to comb through years of Armendariz’s private and sensitive data—all supposedly to look for evidence related to the alleged simple assault.

That's an insane overreaction and overreach. There's some quotes from officers during the protests that are particularly troubling, too.

The article links directly to the ruling: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/0101...

I wonder how the Sargent and Judge who approved these searches feel. If they take their jobs seriously, I do hope that they are more critical of search warrant applications in the future.

[stronglikedan]

> I wonder how the Sargent and Judge who approved these searches feel. If they take their jobs seriously, I do hope that they are more critical of search warrant applications in the future.

I guarantee they feel like they've been slighted because they take their jobs seriously, and from their perspective they should have been allowed to do what they did. Power corrupts the mind as much as the bank account.

[cogman10]

Yup. To see this mentality on full display you just have to pull up videos of cops getting DUIs.

They all act like it's the most insulting thing in the world that they get pulled over. They all use their status as cops to try and get out of the ticket. The cops that pull them over always treat them in the softest and most deferential way imaginable. And I'm sure more times than there are videos for, these cops get away with DUI which is why they are so incensed when the arresting cop doesn't play along.

[formerly_proven]

I doubt it, judges don't read warrant applications.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

With enough data, you could appear guilty of almost anything.

[NoSalt]

> "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

~ Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal and former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of France)

[koolba]

Particularly if you filter out the context when presenting the filtered data:

“Wish I could be there. I’d kill for such an opportunity. All the best and see you next time.”

[syntheticnature]

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

[seanw444]

"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."

[radicaldreamer]

If you think judges actually read warrants they sign, you’re very mistaken. Some judges are signing dozens of these a day in between other things on their docket.

[hirvi74]

"Ninety-eight percent of warrant reviews eventually result in an approval, and over 93% are approved on first submission. Further, we find that the median time for review is only three minutes, and that one out of every ten warrants is opened, reviewed, and approved in sixty seconds or less. [1]"

Mind you, this data only represents the state of Utah's electronic "e-Warrant" system. It would not surprise me is results were not too different across other states.

[1] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/unwarranted-warra...

[UncleMeat]

> I wonder how the Sargent and Judge who approved these searches feel. If they take their jobs seriously, I do hope that they are more critical of search warrant applications in the future.

Cops often hate the people. They see the people as their enemies. Retaliation is commonplace. Their goal is to arrest people, not actually achieve peace and justice. DAs and judges are often similar. We've seen cases where highly respected DAs have continued to prosecute people they knew were innocent.

This sort of thing is not a case of particular cops or DAs or judges not taking their job seriously. This is cops or DAs or judges thinking that they have a totally different job than they really should have.

[cess11]

Cops often have the view that if they weren't allowed to be special and do things that are crimes for others, then society would collapse in a huge bloodbath. They tend to believe they are the 'thin blue line' between civilisation and barbarism, the front in a war against the unbridled animalism of the uncouth masses.

[bmitc]

> If they take their jobs seriously

There's about 0% that's true. Judges and even police are politicians now.