{"id":53964,"date":"2023-01-05T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53964"},"modified":"2023-01-05T03:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T08:59:43","slug":"techdirt-successful-evidence-suppression-motion-shows-cops-think-pretty-much-everything-is-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53964","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Successful Evidence Suppression Motion Shows Cops Think Pretty Much Everything Is \u2018Suspicious\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/2023\/01\/03\/successful-evidence-suppression-motion-shows-cops-think-pretty-much-everything-is-suspicious\/\">Successful Evidence Suppression Motion Shows Cops Think Pretty Much Everything Is \u2018Suspicious\u2019<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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: \u201creasonable suspicion.\u201d But what seems \u201creasonable\u201d to someone like you or me is nowhere near what seems \u201creasonable\u201d to a law enforcement officer.<\/p><p>For instance, behold the many contradictions contained in the list law enforcement and the TSA use to determine which passengers are \u201csuspicious:\u201d<\/p><p>\u2022 Being the first person off a plane<br \/>\u2022 Being the last person off a plane<br \/>\u2022 Someone authorities believe has tried to blend in to the middle of exiting passengers<br \/>\u2022 Booking a nonstop flight<br \/>\u2022 Booking a flight with a layover<br \/>. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23552058\/suspicious-wtf.pdf\">United States v. Contreras<\/a>, posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53883\">here<\/a> on 12\/24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Successful Evidence Suppression Motion Shows Cops Think Pretty Much Everything Is \u2018Suspicious\u2019 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-to-suppress","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53968,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53964\/revisions\/53968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}