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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
No Pretextual Stops in CA?
I'm teaching Terry stops and reasonable suspicion this week, and came across this on the ACLU of Northern CA website.
Nearly four years [after a lawsuit was filed against the CHP for a non-consent search with no PC - HA] a settlement was finally reached, and CHP committed to making wide spread reforms. Among these included no longer allowing CHP to use traffic violations as an excuse for stopping and searching a car for illegal drugs unless the officers have probable cause or reasonable suspicion of drug activity. CHP has also declared a moratorium on consent searches until 2006.
I can see why the "no consent searches" agreement would be big news, though I have my doubts about how it can be enforced or monitored. I have to wonder, though: does anyone at the ACLU think that requiring reasonable suspicion for stops is going to significantly reduce racial profiling, which is what the ACLU was concerned about?
With this, I bid you all farewell; this was fun, and thank you, Dan, for making this such a cozy living room to have a good conversation in.
Posted by Hadar Aviram on October 1, 2008 at 11:11 PM | Permalink
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