Re: On the LAM--Local Area Mixes (fwd)

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> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:30:26 -0800
> Original-From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: On the LAM--Local Area Mixes

> the year before the Supreme Court issued the Exclusionary Rule,
> the New York City police didn't bother getting any search warrants,
> because the Constitutional requirement that they do so didn't have
> any real enforcement mechanism.

Are police considered an extension of the judicial or the executive arm of
the government?


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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Jim Choate wrote:

> Are police considered an extension of the judicial or the executive arm of
> the government?

In theory, executive.  (That way legislative writes laws, executive
decides if they want to enforce them, judicial decides if they're legal or
not.. )  In theory, of course..

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