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Law enforcement are permitted to lie to get private information, e.g. in an interrogation. They would need to have at least probable cause if not a warrant to conduct that interrogation though.



I also don't think that law enforcement should be permitted to lie to get private information.


"Should" and "are" are different in this case.




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