“If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear”
From Wikipedia: “The nothing to hide argument states that government surveillance programs do not threaten privacy unless they uncover illegal activities, and that if they do uncover illegal activities, the person committing these activities does not have the right to keep them private.”
An older guy once came up to me in a grocery store and yelled that he was an off-duty cop who wouldn’t hesitate to throw my ass in jail if I did anything wrong. The only crime I think I was committing was being a teenager in public and perhaps laughing a little too loudly with my friends. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t ask him to prove he was a cop. I can imagine two possible outcomes. The first is he really would put me in jail for an unspecified charge. The second is he was impersonating an officer, a real crime, and wouldn’t respond well to having his “cover” blown.
Of course an undercover cop, as your experience shows, would never want to admit to being a cop, but I still think of that incident every time I hear about “plainclothes” cops.
Why would an undercover cop be involved in a daylight raid and in public? If protecting the identity of your undercover operatives is so important, use plain clothes cops for your raids instead of insisting on special treatment of evidence.
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