4A reasonableness

If a law enforcement officer is never trained on the Fourth Amendment, does he or she get the benefit of the good faith exception or reasonableness? Don’t both require some “understanding” by definition? See Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting) (“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”)

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