If a post is completely off topic, please report the post and message the mods.Ģ. Abandoned buildings without a creepy context will be directed elsewhere. Generally speaking, if it can work as a post on a comedy or a cute subreddit, it doesn't belong here. NOT CREEPY DON'T POST IT! Insufficiently creepy submissions will be removed at moderator's discretion. In addition to reddit's global rules, /r/creepy enforces the following:ġ. But before we engage in any updates, the public must be convinced such updates are needed and won't be used for non-terrorist purposes that chip away at our civil liberties.New to reddit? Click here! Join our Discord! The government will continue to argue for more surveillance authorities-like the need to update the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act-under the guise of terrorism. But just like we've seen elsewhere, these claims are false. Proponents of Section 213 claimed sneak and peek warrants were needed to protect against terrorism. The numbers vindicate privacy advocates who urged Congress to shelve Section 213 during the Patriot Act debates. Section 213 codified this practice into statute, taking delayed notice from a relatively rare occurrence into standard operating law enforcement procedure. The court also explained that the rule could give way in situations where evidence was under threat of destruction or there were concerns for officer safety. The idea was to give the owner an opportunity to assert their Fourth Amendment rights. Wisconsin that the Fourth Amendment requires police to generally “knock and announce” their entry into property as a means of notifying a homeowner of a search. Section 213 may be less known than Section 215 of the Patriot Act (the clause the government is currently using to collect your phone records), but it's just as important. The majority of requests were overwhelmingly for narcotics cases, which tapped out at 9,401 requests. The 2013 report confirms the incredibly low numbers. 6%, or 58 requests, dealt with terrorism cases. The 2012 report follows a similar pattern: Only. 5,093 were used for drugs, while only 31 (or. The 2011 report reveals a total of 6,775 requests. Second, the uses: Out of the 3,970 total requests from Octoto September 30, 2010, 3,034 were for narcotics cases and only 37 for terrorism cases (about. Exactly what privacy advocates argued in 2001 is happening: sneak and peak warrants are not just being used in exceptional circumstances-which was their original intent-but as an everyday investigative tool. That's an increase of over 7,000 requests. Within three years that number jumped to 11,129. The 2010 report reveals 3,970 total requests were processed. What do the reports reveal? Two things: 1) there has been an enormous increase in the use of sneak and peek warrants and 2) they are rarely used for terrorism cases.įirst, the numbers: Law enforcement made 47 sneak-and-peek searches nationwide from September 2001 to April 2003. The last publicly available report about sneak and peek warrants was released in 2010 however, the Administrative Office of the US Courts has finally released reports from 2011, 2012, and 2013. Throughout the Patriot Act debate the Department of Justice urged Congress to pass Section 213 because it needed the sneak and peak power to help investigate and prosecute terrorism crimes “without tipping off terrorists.” In 2005, FBI Director Robert Mueller continued the same exact talking point, emphasizing sneak and peek warrants were “an invaluable tool in the war on terror and our efforts to combat serious criminal conduct.”Ī closer look at the number of sneak and peek warrants issued (a reporting requirement imposed by Congress) shows this is simply not the case. Yet again, terrorism concerns appear to be trampling our civil liberties. But the latest government report detailing the numbers of “sneak and peek” warrants reveals that out of a total of over 11,000 sneak and peek requests, only 51 were used for terrorism. Known as a “sneak and peek” warrant, law enforcement was adamant Section 213 was needed to protect against terrorism. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties.
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