POLS 4720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Motor Vehicle Exception, Expanding Bullet, Emission Standard
26 Mar 2018
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Washington dc vice squad officer were patrolling in an unmarked vehicle. They saw a dark nissan pathfinder stopped at a stop sign with the driver looking down into the passe(cid:374)ge(cid:396)"s lap. The vehi(cid:272)le stopped fo(cid:396) a(cid:271)out 20 se(cid:272)o(cid:374)ds at the stop sign. The police turned around and headed back toward suddenly to its right without signaling and sped off. The officer caught up to the vehicle at a red light and told the driver to put the car in park. Crack cocaine was found in the vehicle after the stop. Standard should be: whether a police officer, acting reasonably, would have made the stop for the reason given. Many people are searched which turn up nothing and no one knows about because no enforcement action is taken. Pre-textual stops are basically the governments way of attacking minorities. The use of traffic laws against people of a specific race is an equal protection claim not fourth.
