I just had a thought (yes it hurt, a little)...


What, if in the course of this "exigent circumstances" dragnet (call it what it is), during one of these "consent at gunpoint" searches, the officers in question discover that one of the detainees has a bench warrant out for a traffic FTA? Other than the anonymous tip, the officer in question would have had no reasonable suspicion or probable cause to make a stop, and thus only made contact with the subject as a result of the blanket stop. Regardless, the subject ends up going to jail. Now that the door has opened to these kinds of searches and detainments, where do we draw the line?