Daily Archives: January 7, 2017

WaPo: Radley Balko’s ‘The Watch’ Blog: This week in drug raids

WaPo: Radley Balko’s ‘The Watch’ Blog: This week in drug raids: The latest in busted doors, dead dogs and dead bodies. … Meanwhile, the Drug War Chronicle reports that 49 people were killed in police drug war operations in 2016, … Continue reading

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W.D.Ky.: Apparent hand-to-hand transaction in high crime area is RS; officers don’t have to actually see the drugs

Officers don’t have to actually see drugs pass in an apparent hand-to-hand transaction in a high crime area to have reasonable suspicion. Reasonable suspicion isn’t a certainty. United States v. Slaughter, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 569 (W.D.Ky. Jan. 4, 2017):

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The Legal Intelligencer: Will Technology Change the Interpretation of the Fourth Amendment? Part 2

The Legal Intelligencer: Will Technology Change the Interpretation of the Fourth Amendment? Part 2 by Leonard Deutchman:

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Tribune-Review: Equal enforcement for all: Set StingRay standard (Editorial)

Tribune-Review: Equal enforcement for all: Set StingRay standard (Editorial): A new, bipartisan House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report rightly calls for a national standard governing all federal, state and local law enforcers’ use of devices that mimic cellphone towers … Continue reading

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