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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Perhaps to flesh it out a bit, police do act on anonymous tips all the time, but not necessarily on anonymous tips alone. Remember that they have to have a search warrant for your home. A judge is going to want more than an anonymous tip alone, but an anonymous tip, viewed in the context of other things that the police may know, may well be sufficient. Likewise, an anonymous tip that contains enough verifiable information as to suggest that the tipster is trustworthy may also be enough.
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I think that many of us are curious about what other information the police had, especially considering that it doesn't seem that the specific circumstance related to the call can be substantiated. What did the phone call add to the mix that was missing before? If everyone locally knew/suspected what was going on, why did it take such a lame standard of proof to tip the scales?
I know that the police have to get a search warrants, but I think the standards for the warrants are shockingly low sometimes. Think about some of the no-knock raid-gone wrong stories that have come out this year (there was an especially bad one in Atlanta last year). Sometimes the standards to get the warrants deeply flawed, and it's really creepy from a civil liberties perspective, even when you are glad about the outcome, like in this case.