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Re:Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X by Teever on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:15PM (#46888512)
If law enforcement credibily believes that criminals are conspiring to commit a crime and are actively doing so in a particular location what is wrong with sending armed people to stop those criminal acivities as well as apprehend the criminals and what ever evidence of their crimes may exist?

If this isn't the entire purpose of law enforcement then what is exactly?

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Re:Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X by mothballed on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:35PM (#46888806)
No, a search warrant isn't intended to [directly] apprehend criminals, though an arrest warrant may come later to do that.
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Re:Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X by Teever on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:56PM (#46890038)
But one could reasonably assume that a location that is known to be used for criminal activity and that likely has evidence of such criminal activity likely also has people commiting crimes.

When police raid a grow-op they often may only have a search warrant but they end up making several arrests because they find people actively commiting crimes when they execute the warrant.

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