LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops
14 March 2022
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14 March 2022
Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using the stop to go fishing for evidence or info related to a completely different criminal act. The Supreme Court curbed these stops a bit, preventing officers from extending stops past the point of the stated reason without additional reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The application of this ruling has been far from consistent. Some courts have decided it’s the length of the violation that matters. If it’s short enough, it ...
LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops
Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using the stop …
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