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if the police genuinely believed that what they were doing was legal, as they did in this case, relying on established legal precedent, then throwing out the evidence doesn't disincentivize anything

This is obviously false. It would disincentivize the police from collecting evidence without first ensuring that the method of collection was legal.

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multjoy 5 days ago | parent [-]

They did. They went to a judge and got a warrant.

	▲	AdrianB1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		That does not make it legal and it does not eliminate the responsibility of asking for the warrant and using it. Not saying there was a conspiracy here, but bad judges exist and arranging for a warrant is possible even for honest judges. If you are a policeman and you want to kill someone, get a judge to sign a "no knock" warrant, get in their house and shoot them, it happened many times; there were cases when the warrant was not even for the address of the poor guy that was killed and last year the warrant was for someone that borrowed a lawn mower from the judge who signed it and did not return it. So the warrant excuse is not so good.