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I think a way we can assist our laws with keeping up with the advancement of technology is to allow police officers to obtain a digital paperless warrant on an official police agency phone. We see technology advancing at an extremely quick rate; we know our laws are barely able to keep up with our general demands, let alone technology. So to receive a digital paperless warrant will give law enforcement an edge on apprehend a criminal when the evidence is time sensitive. Of course there are limitations on the reach police officers will have on using this tech tool. According to our The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects people’s right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches …show more content…

Courts have allowed warrantless searches in situations where it would be impractical or dangerous to delay a search in order to obtain a warrant. Also a warrantless search con is conducted if an incident lead to a lawful Arrest. Police officers may conduct a limited search of a person when they have placed the person under arrest. The search must be limited to the area of the person’s immediate control and be for the purpose of checking for weapons and evidence Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 (1969). Police must obtain a warrant, however, to search a person’s cell phone after an arrest Riley v. California, 571 U.S. (2014). Also when an arrest involves a vehicle a police officer may search the vehicle without a warrant during the lawful arrest of the driver, but only if they reasonably believe that the person under arrest might still be able to access the vehicle’s passenger compartment, or the vehicle contains evidence relevant to the offense for which they are arresting the person. Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009).So in the middle of an investigation, instead of having to wait hours or days to search a house, car, etc. An app connected to a judge computer could send out the details of what kind of crime has taken place, the area that needs to be search, the item that is trying to be recovered. Once that information is sent out, a judge will instantly received the request for a warrant and they can either approve or deny the search

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