Quote Originally Posted by OneGuy67 View Post
Once again, there is the belief the cops are lying on affidavits to the judges or mistakes are made that show officers to be grossly incompetent. Really? You do realize the level of trouble an officer can get into if a judge finds out you lied on and swore to a false affidavit? Mistakes can and do happen and I know of one search warrant in Durango that one of my co-workers was associated with, but did not engage or participate in the execution of that was the wrong house. The house was correctly identified in the warrant, but the officers went to the wrong house. Cost that agency about $20,000. Rightly so.
I think you're a little overly sensitive here- I never said, or even directly implied that I believe an officer would deliberately lie to get a warrant... and I certainly didn't use phrases even remotely like "grossly incompetent" Could they be lied to? Could he/she use the below assumption of guilt to jump to conclusions he/she shouldn't? They're human, after all...

Quote Originally Posted by OneGuy67 View Post
As for suspects being guilty? Generally speaking, yes. If I, through my extensive years of experience and training, identify you as being the suspect of a crime and I present a case to the DA's office indicating that, in my mind, you are guilty. Whether or not that plays out in a court is another thing. I cannot control what the DA decides to prosecute or not.
This kind of thinking can incrementally lead to a lapse in judgment that could get an innocent person killed... The road to hell is paved with good intentions... stack up a few smaller mistakes made in different places, even by different people, and you get a travesty of justice.

I'm not trying to lecture, or bash... just debating...