[throwno]

What if it comes out that he was coordinating with the Harris campaign to help get her anti-lynching bill passed which had been dead before the incident due to extremely low rates of lynching in modern America? They attended protests together and were at least familiar if not friends.

[buboard]

Whose safety is threatened by that law?

[unishark]

The scandal would be about everyone's safety being threatened when the cops' time is diverted by false reports for political agendas.

[buboard]

while no doubt this is grounds for jail time or fines, do you think a search of this depth is warranted? And how is that not wasting way more police time?

[unishark]

No I don't think it's a good reason to do such an invasive search.

Though I also don't think they should just drop the investigation if they have evidence there was a real crime committed (the false police report). I sure don't know anyone who committed a felony, got busted, but then was allowed to just walk away because it was a hassle to prosecute them. As for the effort, I'm sure they have some digital forensics tool that will search anything for them these days. Probably just one case among many that one person is working on at this point.

[soulofmischief]

Without knowing the specifics of the bill in question, we shouldn't speculate.