... (through lawful means) and arrest those guilty. As a result, the power to search people and property after a minimal threshold of suspicions has been cited as necessary part of law enforcement protocol. Activities, such as phone tapping, were considered "dangerous and unwarranted practice[s]" by the legal authorities of the alcohol prohibition era. (www.ottawacitizen.com) There was even a time ... real criminal cases are obviously getting less attention than they deserve. Similarly large portions of police and law enforcement agencies have been diverted specifically to narcotics investi...

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... will not assist minority motorists in their struggle for equal treatment from law enforcement. In this decision, the police officers used probable cause for a traffic violation as a pretext to investigate possible drug offenses by two young black males driving through a "high crime" ... equality cannot be achieved, it still wants African-American and Latino-American motorists to continue the struggle against the discriminatory enforcement of traffic stops by police. Under these ideas, Bell promotes the policy of "harassing whites." This policy of harassment ... its "war on drugs," feder...

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... millions of those who break our laws; mostly non-violent drug laws. In 1968, to answer the public's outcry to stem the "drug problem", Congress responded with a major anti-crime bill that provided millions of dollars to states for local law enforcement which increased the federal government's involvement in local law enforcement. Since then this country has ignored intellectual models of criminal ... down again, but the incarceration rate has marched relentlessly upward every single year.2 Crime rates have been stable and slightly declining since the 1970's. The massive increase in law...

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... the right of a school to do a random locker search for drugs. They have ruled that the administration's interest in keeping the school drug-free outweighs the minimal privacy rights of the students. The law on this issue is still unclear. If the school finds something in your ... not want your school or the police to find! Can school officials randomly search students in classrooms just because they think there is a general drug problem at the school? Judged by the 'reasonableness' standard in New Jersey v. T.L.O., these kind of random searches should not be allowed because ... be more l...

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... both parties of the conversation are being listened to. Therefore the privacy of innocent people along with the suspect is being invaded by law enforcement. Hidden cameras also record the comings and goings of multiple people, not just the suspect in a certain case. By recording the actions of ... every person who walks into a wired room law enforcement officials are taking away the protection of unreasonable searches which is guaranteed in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. There have been multiple Supreme ... medical records should be kept confidential because they may includ...

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... 1). Along with registration, the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act imposed a five-day waiting period on the purchase of a handgun and required that local law enforcement agencies conduct background checks on purchasers of handguns (Us Gov. Info 1). The Supreme Court, in the case of Printz vs. United States, declares the ... " the gun must be test fired before it is sold. The "fingerprints" can then be entered into a computer and are accessible to law enforcement agencies. Currently, New York and Maryland are the only two states who have enacted the law (Ballistic Fingerprinting 1). Th...

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... to the development of search and seizure law. The definition of "unreasonable" was first dealt with at the federal level in the 1914 case of Weeks v. United States. Federal law enforcement authorities accused the defendant, Freemont Weeks of using the mail for illegal purposes. After his arrest, the home in which Weeks was staying was searched without a valid search warrant. Evidence ... Amendment has taken a serious thrashing from judges and politicians in recent years, as it continually remains a highly debated subject. The U.S. Supreme Court has approved roadblocks detaining law-abid...

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... ; to see if the tip is "reliable," with this new standard, the fact that the informant was able to predicted future behavior which could be independently corroborated by law enforcement was good enough and the case survived. The third big case in this area of law is U.S. v. Leon (1984) Volume 468 of the United States Supreme Court Reports, Page 897 ... . This was a drug case from Burbank. The District Court granted defendant's motions to suppress the evidence so that the evidence was thrown out and the case was dismissed. The Court of Appeals for ... a bunch of people were selling drugs....

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