techdirt: Successful Evidence Suppression Motion Shows Cops Think Pretty Much Everything Is ‘Suspicious’

techdirt: Successful Evidence Suppression Motion Shows Cops Think Pretty Much Everything Is ‘Suspicious’ by Tim Cushing, about reasonable suspicion in traffic stops. Everything and anything is reasonable suspicion, so if everything is, everyone can be stopped and detained.

Law enforcement officers really enjoy performing warrantless searches. To get to that point, however, they need to be in certain places (airports, roadsides) and have one certain thing: “reasonable suspicion.” But what seems “reasonable” to someone like you or me is nowhere near what seems “reasonable” to a law enforcement officer.

For instance, behold the many contradictions contained in the list law enforcement and the TSA use to determine which passengers are “suspicious:”

• Being the first person off a plane
• Being the last person off a plane
• Someone authorities believe has tried to blend in to the middle of exiting passengers
• Booking a nonstop flight
• Booking a flight with a layover
. . .

United States v. Contreras, posted here on 12/24.

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