Reasonable suspicion Essays

  • Essay On Reasonable Suspicion

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    Reasonable suspicion constitutes a stop by police. According to our textbook, the Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, which is why is it important for police to justly stop a person (p. 17). The exclusionary rule states that any evidence obtained from improper police work, like an unwarranted stop, is not allowed in court. A Terry Stop only requires reasonable suspicion that the person was involved in criminal activity. Reasonable suspicion, according to our textbook

  • Reasonable Suspicion in Law Enforcement

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    Whatever the case is, police have to have reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The term reasonable suspicion is a lesser standard than probable cause. It is a general belief that a crime is occurring, or has occurred. Reasonable suspicion can’t be only a hunch. It has to be based on the facts at hand and the reasoning from those facts that will lead someone else under the same circumstances to believe that a crime has occurred. The standard reasonable suspicion only allows law enforcement to temporarily

  • Police Confrontations

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    “Probable cause for arrest exists when facts and circumstances within the police officer's knowledge would lead a reasonable person to believe that the suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime” (Probable Cause - FindLaw. (2013). If the officer arrests someone for committing a rape or a murder and that officer didn’t develop any type of probable

  • Pros And Cons Of Stop And Frisk

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    have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been, or is in progress before stopping a suspect. If the officer realistically is certain that the person is carrying a weapon and is dangerous, the officers can conduct a search, a rapid pat down of the suspect’s exterior clothing. A law enforcement officer may stop and briefly detain a person for investigatory purposes if the officer has a reasonable suspicion supported by articulable facts of impending criminal activity. Reasonable suspicion is less

  • Understanding the Controversy of Stop and Frisk

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    According to the Ohio Court of Appeals, the Terry stop was supported by sufficient reasonable suspicion because significant aspects of the anonymous caller 's predictions were verified. In the Wisconsin case, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the police had reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigatory stop based on an anonymous tip that individuals were dealing drugs from a vehicle parked within view of the tipster and their

  • Supreme Court Case: The Illinois V. Wardlow Case

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    Is a person's sudden flight from identifiable police officer, patrolling a high crime area, suspicious to justify the officer's stop and frisk of that person? This was the question that the justices of the Supreme Court were addressing when they heard the argument of the case Illinois v. Wardlow on November 2, 1999. In March 1999, the Supreme Court upheld the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. This made the Supreme Court want to expand the police’s rights

  • Pros And Cons Of Racial Profiling

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    society, law enforcement has done to them. An example of second -class citizen is when in April 2010, Arizona authorized SB 1070, a law that would require law-enforcement officers to prove the citizenship of individuals they stop if they have reasonable suspicion that they may be in the United States illegally. (NY Times: Blocking Parts Palacios 2 of Arizona Law, Justices Allow Its Centerpiece). Other reason why it harms our society is when it comes to physical appearance, people... ... middle of

  • The Meaning of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    challenge." (p. 69) In many description located in the novel Conrad depicts Africa and it’s people as being dark and of inhuman nature. "It was unearthly, and the men were -No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it -this suspicion of t... ... middle of paper ... ... Darkness is that he meant the darkness and wickedness that he saw and associated with European colonialism and imperialistic rule of Africa. Some slight undertones and actions of some of the characters in the

  • Paul Ricoeur's Intervention In The Gadamer-Stermas

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    20th century. The confrontation between Gadamer and Habermas turns on the assessment of tradition and the place of language within it; the hermeneutical stance takes a positive stance, while ideologiekritik views tradition with a hooded-brow of suspicion, tantamount to "seeing tradition as merely the systematically distorted expression

  • Abigail In The Crucible Act 1 Essay

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    intent of getting what he feels is the truth. Abigail continually acts innocent in order to eliminate the suspicion of Rev. Parris. To keep the incident a secret, Abigail threatens the girls involved in the incident, so that they will not talk. More specifically, she threatens the girls with death by her hands. Her logic for this is quite clear, she wants to be cleared of all suspicion, and by putting fear into the girls, she feels that this is a adequately accomplished. As a result, Abagails

  • Alienation of the Main Character in To Build A Fire

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    Alienation of the Main Character in To Build A Fire In most novels and short stories, the emphasis lays on the main character. The author gives details on his personality, his skills, or his appearance one by one until we, as readers, get the final picture of what the protagonist looks like. However, this is not always the case; sometimes it seems in the writer's favor to limit the descriptions of the main character to a minimum, in order to allow him to put the emphasis on the theme. In the

  • William Shakespeare's Othello as a Mirror of Man

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    colors. It only takes a mere suggestion from his "honest" ancient, Iago, to make Othello suspicious of his wife's infidelity. He worries that she is cheating on him with his lieutenant, Cassio, even though he has no evidence to prove that his suspicion has any basis in fact. His fear is based solely on the fact that he doesn't want to be a cuckold and he is worried what others might think of him if they find out that his wife is having an affair. His reputation is so very important to him that

  • Ayn Rand's We the Living

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    Rand herself for the foreword to the 1959 printing of her 1936 novel We the Living, convey not only Rand's direction to the reader to keep in mind the universality of the book's theme, but also her opinion of communism in 1925 Russia and her suspicion that the United States might be headed down the same erroneous path.  During her lifetime, Rand would write prolifically both fiction and non-fiction, and found a philosophical movement whose widespread appeal would spark both loyalty and controversy

  • Democracy Or Oligarchy? A Comparative Essay

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    to keep the numbers of slaves down, and to further subdue the slaves hopes of one day being free. Since slaves were treated horribly by the Spartans they were constantly trying to escape. In Sparta a slave could be killed simply because of being suspicion of that slave being a rebel or planning to escape. In Athens most slaves were loved, respected, and often paid for their labours. They were given the opportunity to pay for their freedom. Unlike Sparta, slaves in Athens were "protected from bodliy

  • Natalia Ginzburg's The Son of Man

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    arrests, and death. She shows how the war not only deprives people of their belongings, but also distorts the primary meaning of things and concepts. The world “police” no longer bears the meaning of protection and help but rather that of fear and suspicion. All pretty things that decorate a house, as well as the house itself, come to be viewed simply as raw material that will eventually turn to dust. Children of the war had seen too much terror and suffering in real life; therefore, Ginzburg asserts

  • The Minister’s Black Veil

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    lifted until the freedom of truth can be observed. The minister’s friends and neighbors are so upset by the veil because the veil becomes a wall between himself and his congregation. The first response is one of curiosity which then turns in suspicion. They cannot understand the meaning for the wearing of the black veil and in turn the people become very uncomfortable around him. The veil and it color ...

  • So Much Water So Close To Home by Raymond Carver

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    are responsible for the murder of the girl. Due to these facts she acts irrationally, suspiciously, and with distrust not only towards her husband, but also to all men in general. Claire's thought process though out the story shows her suspicion. This suspicion causes Claire to notice minuet details, which would usually be overlooked by the common person. At the dinner table she watches his every move, "he seems tired, edgy.... He looks at me and looks away again"(Carver, 278). These are usually

  • Othello - Honest Iago

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    gradually, ensuring that Othello can fully trust him every step of the way. I hope you will consider what is spoke Comes from my love. But I do see you’re moved. I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues nor to larger reach Than to suspicion (III iii 231-235). He even says himself that the advice he gives is free and honest so Othello won’t consider that he is just being fooled. Iago’s plan of deception centered around Othello’s jealously over Desdemona. The whole time, Othello holds

  • Othello: Iago Makes Othello Believe His Wife Is Having An Affair

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    which he proclaims Othello has had an affair with his wife, Emilia: "And it is thought abroad that t'wixt my sheets/ He's done my office" (I.iii.381-383). The irony behind this line is where he continues: "I know not if't be true/ But I, for mere suspicion in that kind; / Will do as if for surety"(I.iii.383-385). Iago is so exceedingly paranoid and insane that he will go far as murdering, and deluding even a general into murdering his wife. Iago simultaneously conducts a devious plan to obtain Cassio's

  • The Night of Terror

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    to sees what would haunt the town and was scared out of his wits. He pushes a young woman out of the doorway as he speeds into the church. He continues to bar the door and close up all of the windows as the surprised group stares on at him with suspicion. He dropped to his knees and prayed as a loud noise echoed through the building. The crowd began to scream as the windows rattled and the building swayed. All of a sudden, a whimper could be heard from the back side of the building. The sound was