Reasonable Suspicion Pros And Cons

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When it comes to the Fourth Amendment, there are many steps that have to be taken to ensure that it is not violated. One way to reduce the possibility of violating the Fourth Amendment is having probable cause so that one's home can be legally searched and evidence can be seized. When something is about to be searched, or seized there must be probable cause or reasonable suspicion in order for an individual’s rights to not be violated. There is a difference between probable cause and reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment.
The Constitution does not explicitly state what probable cause is. It just says in the Fourth Amendment, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable …show more content…
Reasonable suspicion has both positive and negative effects. A positive effect of reasonable suspicion is the situation where it is being used to deter an individual or group from committing a crime. The negative effect of reasonable suspicion is when it is used in an abusive or illegal manner, then the result is the people involved in the negative situation asking why the actions performed were thought of as reasonable suspicion in the first place. For example, if an individual who is wearing a white tank top is sitting on a bench minding his or her own business and an officer receives a call about an individual sitting on a bench wearing a white tank top who supposedly has a gun, that is a positive use of reasonable suspicion. However, if there is three people sitting on a bench, one wearing a white tank top and the other two wearing blue t-shirts and an officer starts randomly searching the two people who have a blue t-shirt on, then the officer is abusing his power and lacking reasonable suspicion because the two people in the blue t-shirts had nothing to do with the person wearing the white tank top. The officer's discretion in this scenario is also unreasonable because the caller did not mention anything about the two individuals in the blue t-shirts, but the officer decided to search them anyway. Reasonable suspicion ties in with the Fourth Amendment because it goes along with the scenario where an individual is acting in a suspicious manner. In the case of an individual acting suspiciously, he or she needs to be asked questions about what he or she is doing, but when it comes to the Fourth Amendment,
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