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It's an atrocious system, innocent people get killed every year over it.
I don't think the concept is inherently flawed, but the execution is obviously terribly flawed. If several people credibly report seeing someone burry a body in their yard, the description of which corresponds to a missing person, I understand how getting a warrant to at least visually inspect their property would be necessary to fully investigate this claim. I don't think this requires the kind of force we often see, but I don't see people offering alternatives to warrants in general. I understand that privacy is a fundamental right, but presumably that's where a judge would come in to decide if there was probable cause to partially suspend that right.
I am open and interested in hearing alternatives, but I do not see them posed. I think what underlies the system would function fine with a less militarized group enforcing it.