{"id":54458,"date":"2023-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54458"},"modified":"2023-03-07T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T01:15:53","slug":"psychology-today-legal-reasonable-suspicion-rests-on-unreasonable-assumptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=54458","title":{"rendered":"Psychology Today: Legal Reasonable Suspicion Rests on Unreasonable Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Psychology Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/sound-science-sound-policy\/202303\/legal-reasonable-suspicion-rests-on-unreasonable-assumptions\">Legal Reasonable Suspicion Rests on Unreasonable Assumptions<\/a> by Melissa Anderson &amp; Cynthia J. Najdowski (\u201cStereotypes about people of color may be limiting Fourth Amendment protections.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Research shows that neighborhoods where residents are predominantly people of color are more likely than others to be deemed \u201chigh crime areas.\u201d<\/li><li>The \u201chigh crime\u201d label is used to explain that stops, searches, and seizures executed are reasonable according to the Fourth Amendment standard.<\/li><li>This result is that people in communities of color are being under-protected by the Fourth Amendment and, consequently, over-policed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Fourth Amendment requires police officers to meet the standard of \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d to justify any stops, searches, and seizures of civilians. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in Illinois v. Wardlow in 2000 that a suspect\u2019s location in a \u201chigh crime area\u201d is relevant to determining the \u201creasonableness\u201d of an officer\u2019s suspicion. However, more than 20 years later, what constitutes a high crime area is still unclear. Recent cases in state appellate courts have called into question the use of this vague construct in justifying reasonable suspicion and police conduct in relation to potential Fourth Amendment violations (e.g., Washington v. State of Maryland, 2021), but the U.S. Supreme Court has so far rejected the opportunity to provide clarification (e.g., Johnson v. Texas, 2021).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology Today: Legal Reasonable Suspicion Rests on Unreasonable Assumptions by Melissa Anderson &amp; Cynthia J. Najdowski (\u201cStereotypes about people of color may be limiting Fourth Amendment protections.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54461,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54458\/revisions\/54461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}