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zahlmantoday at 6:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is non-sequitur. "Investigating crimes" entails knowledge that a crime has actually occurred, and deliberately seeking information specifically related to that crime; "fishing for circumstantial evidence" does not.


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rileymat2today at 8:01 PM

Being located in an area of a crime is circumstantial evidence. Any info on what drivers license plates drove by a camera is absolutely circumstantial evidence to a crime in the area that is known to have occurred, almost definitionally.

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DANmodetoday at 7:07 PM

You would hope.

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