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android wrote:

rotor wrote:To be a devils advocate, what if the police were watching a suspected meth shop and checking the license plates of every person going in or out? And then checking garbage of those people to see if there were traces of amphetamines or whatever one tests for? Would we be so critical or would that be considered good police work.

Where can you buy meth legally?

It has been ruled over and over that possession of legal objects that have sometimes been used by criminals to commit crimes is NOT reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed or that the possessor intends to commit a crime.

My reference was that the police were not doing anything illegal by watching the hydroponics shop (or a house suspected but not proven to be a meth house), capturing their license plate numbers, and checking their trash. This could be looked at as good investigative work in the case of the suspected meth lab and possible over-reactive work in the case of the hydroponics shop. Police have been known to set up sting operations too and as far as I know they are legal. I don't think this is an argument about the legality of marijuana. I don't even think this is an argument. I premised this as being a devils advocate. But I was happy to know in my city that the police had targeted suspected meth dealers and were going after the people they were selling to as well as the dealers.

To be a devils advocate, what if the police were watching a suspected meth shop and checking the license plates of every person going in or out? And then checking garbage of those people to see if there were traces of amphetamines or whatever one tests for? Would we be so critical or would that be considered good police work.