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yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

And anywhere outside the US, home searches are nearly always legal since they must be signed by a judge. And judges rarely rule against their own.

Over here in Germany, where the inviolability of the home is in the constitution, the suspicion of any crime suffices for getting your home searched. This includes filesharing, spraying graffiti or insulting someone on the internet by calling them a dick. Plus, any resulting damages are only paid if you are found not guilty.

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cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
calling someone a dick is a crime??

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- yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  archive.is/RsyNC [unpaywalled Washington Post link]
  
  Some reactions:
  
  The text above reads: “Special Police Unit Wall and Color” Image
  
  Later the police arrived:
  
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  But again:
  
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  And the cops came back:
  
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  But finally:
  
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  By the way, the case was finally dropped. Only because the outrage made them not pursue it though. Courts would have likely ruled this was an insult.
  
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  - bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s wild that insults are a crime there, I never knew that. Quite funny back and forth, though. I laughed at how the writing got more and more chaotic haha
    
    As for your other comment, the US also requires a judge to sign off on a warrant for raiding/searching someone’s home. Some judges are more strict about it than others, and the more high profile you are, the more the judges tend to be stricter with approving them.
    
    However, if you’re in a poorer area and you’re not rich, it’s not unheard of for home raids to occur quite liberally. Hell, one of my old coworkers got raided a few years ago due to the police going to the wrong address (the intended house was across the street). And no, the police didn’t give shit for compensation and his family couldn’t afford to take it to court and he just didn’t want to deal with potential repercussions of the police harassing him afterwards since he’s an immigrant (here legally, but yeah, lots of people here don’t care about that…).
    
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