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After Apr. 19, officers and agencies could incur liability for vehicle searches incident to arrest that do not fall within the Gant guidelines.
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Although it's common to see the term "stop and frisk," it's possible that there might be justification for a stop, but not for a frisk.
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What the exclusionary rule has actually meant in practice is that thousands (maybe millions) of criminals have been able to stop the prosecution from using critical evidence of their guilt to hold them accountable for their crimes.
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in Utah who searched a suspect's home without a warrant cannot be sued for violating his constitutional rights.
Read More →The most significant changes require officers to receive a signed form before a driver consents to a search and for officers to document, what factors, exactly, prompted the search for those cars and trucks where a search proves fruitless.
Read More →The agreement comes 18 months after a federal judge found that the LAPD was unconstitutionally searching homeless people in the Skid Row area as part of Chief William J. Bratton's crackdown on downtown crime.
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The Seeker Plus from MSE Group detects ferrous and non-ferrous metals with 360-degree continuous detection and pin-point detection. It has adjustable sensitivity, a 10-inch probe, and durable, tough ABS construction.
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Notwithstanding the explosion of youth criminality, the court has largely continued to treat juvenile offenders in a more lenient and paternalistic fashion than adults.
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Adams Electronics’ model AD11-V has the simultaneous audio/visual alarm facility standard on all the company’s handheld metal detectors. But it also has the ability, via a two-position rocker switch, to switch the detector to either standard "audio/visual" setting or "vibration only” mode. This feature gives the AD11-V the ability to alert the operator of a potential weapon silently.
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The Torfino Metal-TEC 1400 is a silent vibrating weapons detector small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Silent vibration will not alarm the subject being searched (or others around them) that a weapon has been detected. It alerts the officer to weapons, razor blades, handcuff keys, and even small pieces of metal foil that may contain drugs from inches away.
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