Side note: If the exclusionary rule was a punishment, it&#x27;s a rather bad one as it allows police to toe right up to the line and if they cross it the worst they get is they lose the piece of evidence they wanted. It&#x27;s merely a bright line that encourages a muscular police force to toe right up to the boundary. If police were punished (e.g. fined, fired, jailed, lose the entire case, etc) for violating someone&#x27;s constitutional rights, they would go nowhere near the line.