Tag: Search and Seizure: Page 11

Patrol

Paris Hilton May Challenge LV Metro's Search In Cocaine Bust

Hilton's attorneys may argue officers didn't follow proper procedure by taking her from the scene. She is also claiming the purse didn't belong to her, according to the report.

August 29, 2010

Patrol

The 'Independent Source' Doctrine

If you can identify two or more ways to justify a detention, arrest, search, or entry, you increase the odds that at least one of them will be upheld in court.

July 29, 2010

Technology

U.S. Supreme Court Allows PDs to Search Officer Pagers

The Ontario (Calif.) Police Department fired Sgt. Jeff Quon after an internal audit determined he had sent a flurry of personal text messages using his department-issued pager.

June 16, 2010

Patrol

A Short Cut to Termination?

Maybe one day the tide will change. Just this week, the Supreme Court made a long overdue clarification on the Miranda matter that is favorable to cops. And who knows? Perhaps one day they'll clean up the exclusionary rule, too.

June 3, 2010

Patrol

Acing the Tests

Experience is the best teacher for learning to spot contraband drugs and alcohol and drug intoxication in the field. But the cop needs a demonstrable standard for evidence. It's here that presumptive field testing for alcohol and drugs is most useful.

May 27, 2010

Training

Understanding Probable Cause

Probable cause is much less than proof "beyond a reasonable doubt," which the prosecutor must meet in order to convict a defendant. But PC is something more than the "reasonable suspicion" required to justify a temporary investigative detention.

May 17, 2010

Patrol

Searching Rides: Dirty and Dangerous

The less inclined you are to search something in a vehicle you've stopped, the better the odds that you should. Diapers and sanitary napkins have been used to store narcotics.

April 29, 2010

Special Units

U.S. Supreme Court Hears SWAT Texting Case

U.S. Supreme Court justices began discussing the merits of the firing of a California SWAT sergeant for receiving sexually explicit text messages on his department-issued pager.

April 19, 2010

Patrol

Cognitive Dissonance

I focused on several likely hiding places: a container of Comet cleanser, filled with just cleanser; a PVC piece of pipe—only a bomb; a box of "SOS" pads....wait a minute!

March 10, 2010

Technology

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Warrant Needed To Search Cell Phones

Ohio patrol officers looking to gather evidence from the cell phones of people they question will now need a search warrant, following a ruling by that state's high court.

December 16, 2009

Technology

U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear LE Texting Case

The nation's high court will hear a case involving a California SWAT sergeant who was fired for using his departmental pager to transmit sexually explicit messages to his wife.

December 13, 2009

Patrol

In-Home Arrest Searches

With reasonable suspicion that someone on the premises might endanger officers during the arrest or as they departed, officers could conduct a "protective sweep" of the entire premises, looking only into areas where a person could be concealed.

November 18, 2009