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"The crimes that take the biggest toll on our communities aren't solved through warrantless searches." True, I'll give you that.
"Police who are investigating a rape, robbery, or murder aren't using consent searches to investigate their suspects." True, but police are DEFINATELY using questioning to gain incriminating statements as a HUGE part of their investigations. If the perp would ALWAYS remain silent and ask for his attorney convictions (for rape, robbery, and murder) would plummet.
"Overwhelmingly, consent searches are used to attempt to discover crimes that weren't known until the search was conducted. They have absolutely no impact on clearance rates for reported crimes." First sentence is true. Second is false. If an officer searches a car and finds an ounce of dope, it counts as a crime in UCR reporting AND it counts as an arrest and therefore definitely effects clearance rates.
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