The problem with your methodology is at some point you will screw up (the illegal sticker was legal) and the bigger case relying on the evidence you got will be thrown out.
The problem with your methodology is at some point you will screw up (the illegal sticker was legal) and the bigger case relying on the evidence you got will be thrown out.
There are far more greater things wrong with this methodology. Kidnap and hold for ransom some driver for an "illegal sticker"? Really? Is this really what we want in society? Here we have a LEO who sees the Constitution, the highest law of the land, the foundational confession of this country as an impediment and something to be made subservient to his ego and vanity - all at another American's expense of liberty and property.
When SirFishalot confessed to stalking and fishing expeditions someone using a legal system so convoluted and impossible to perfectly observe to effectively deprive another American of their God given Rights, my initial thought was "and they wonder why we hate them". I'm hoping that SirFishalot is merely musing hypotheticals and doesn't actually employ this abomination. I would think with budget crunches and talks of union busting, that the LEOs would wake up from their stupor and realize that they are actively losing the PR war and the public will be less likely to agree to their continual demands as long as they try to convince the public that they are our enemy by their increasingly thuggish actions and publicized statements.