You&#x27;re assuming good-faith on the part of the police. Then using an emotional counter argument. Think about that. A police officer really believes that you&#x27;re a terrible person and guilty of some terrible crime; and use that to justify a tiny little lie by pretending s&#x2F;he didn&#x27;t know that they couldn&#x27;t do X.<p>Of course sane people do not <i>want</i> guilty people to go free. What&#x27;s wanted here, and what&#x27;s important here, is not that the guilty go free, but that the innocent aren&#x27;t subject to harassment, embarrassment, and all sorts of other -ments from the government. And before you ask, yes, it&#x27;s okay with me if some murders go unsolved due to the absence of pervasive surveillance, or even the overly liberal application of the &quot;good-faith&quot; exception.