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"We understand there is a [privacy] concern, but the benefit will outweigh the concern." ~Dave Pecchia, MCPA.......It is in these well-intentioned but misguided efforts to safeguard the public from shadowy, undefined threats that the liberties differentiating America from the rest of the world--liberties that define what it means to be American--are slowly but surely stripped from us. And we are left not with freedoms guaranteed to us by the Constitution, but only with a promise of discretion. This is how America succumbs, not from without, but from within.

The police always want more ways to spy on people without being accountable. America is slowly but surely combining the police, spies, and the military into one all-powerful, unquestionable entity. This is part and parcel of that. If you were to read who all they consider to be potential terrorists, it would make your blood run cold.

Is this the freedom our soldiers fight and die for... I THINK NOT!!!!!

If someone anonymously calls police and reports you are dealing drugs, do you think you are going to be able to view the investigators notes/reports to see if you are the subject of an investigation? What is there to fear if you are not involved in terrorist type activities? I believe this would be easier to pass if there weren't so many Minneapolis officers involved in substantial negative activity.

It's getting real hard to tell just who the good guys are any more.

Dangerous idea and perilous public policy. Have we forgotten so soon the lessons learner in the aftermath of the gang task force? This new law would only provide a legal shield to an over reaching police state.

This country was not based on "the end justifies the means", it was based on losing occasionally so that all of us can win. As soon as we give in to the siren song of "prevention at all costs", we have become a police state because only a police state can guarantee that. Ask the North Koreans.

remember the article about a group of officers checking information on one officer not to long ago. accessing information they had no reason to and it wasn't one officer it went across many city police departments that are in a little tight nit group, and all over a jilted lover officer who had to have a restraining againsit her, so if they do that to there own what the heck do you think they would do to you. neighbor gets pissed at you knows a buddy on the force makes a bogus claim now your under a secrect scrunity only to find out the complaining neighbor was pissed becasue you seal your window because your daughter kept thinking someone was stalking her. Get my point

The State wishes to conduct their police activities in secret, just like all tyrannical governments do. Everyone is a suspect, just like East Germany, Stalinism, and Bush-Obamaism. The fact that they get away with it, in the open, is proof they have stolen constitution. They deserve our utmost contempt.

unreal12Jan. 24, 12 1:53 AM What is there to fear if you are not involved in terrorist type activities?_________________________________It never takes long for someone to post this sentence. The answer, unreal12, is that every citizen has a right to due process. How about expanding your scenario to take into consideration that you aren't dealing the drugs that your neighbor anonymously reports? This isn't a police state and what you're suggesting is exactly what happens in China, North Korea, Russia and every other country that we don't want to emulate. I've always found it ironic that people who proclaim their pride in our country and constitution are the first to volunteer to give up the freedoms contained within.