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Isn’t that fruit of the poison tree though?

• woodruffw 4y ago
  That's where the parallel construction part applies: ShotSpotter lets the police do "vibes based" policing (to put it nicely), and then parallel construct their way backwards to a "legitimate" source of evidence. (If I'm being pedantic, "fruit of the poisonous tree" usually refers to illegally obtained evidence, which ShotSpotter is technically not. It's purely a source of investigatory pretext.)
  • feet 4y ago
    Correct, it's usually the evidence obtained in the parallel construction phase that was illegally obtained
• hypersoar 4y ago
  The exclusionary rule has been gutted over the decades. Police and prosecutors have long known how to work around it.