In the event of an accident, should police be allowed to check your phone for recent text messaging ?

Oh boy. Now I wonder where you live. Not that ill be visiting but maybe ill detour around if im ever traveling.

@Oddnelly: Denver. The cops here have always had a bad reputation. In the 1950s, there was a burglary ring of cops (there's a book about it). In 1970, a friend and I hitchhiked to California from Illinois and we were warned several times to get a ride across Colorado and not to hitchhike through Denver, the cops would beat us up and throw us in jail for a month. We've recently had scandals where cops beat a woman to death in jail, and most recently a cop who told a jail inmate who was suicidal to go ahead and kill himself, which a police inquiry board found no fault with. In the last few years I have had so many encounters with rude cops. I was once mugged at gunpoint and the mugger was more polite than the cops.

@hunkalove: Here's one for the Darwin Awards: The cops here are now required to wear body cameras. A cop was recorded counting a wad of $100 bills he took from a suspect. He turned in about $160. He might, and that's might, get fired. The suspect was released for lack of evidence.