> It feels like it incentivizes the police to minimize their understanding of the law so that they can believe they are following it.
It is not so lax as that. It's limited to situations where a reasonable person who knows exactly what the law and previous court rulings say might conclude that a certain action is legal. In this case, other Federal Circuit courts have ruled that similar actions are legal.
It is not so lax as that. It's limited to situations where a reasonable person who knows exactly what the law and previous court rulings say might conclude that a certain action is legal. In this case, other Federal Circuit courts have ruled that similar actions are legal.