In answer to the comment section on the ethics of not helping law enforcement, my friend writes: 1. We expect that a customer has the same right to privacy that he enjoys in his home. It’s that simple. Plus, heck from a transaction perspective… it is the same as renting an apt or an office.…
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I’ve still very curious about all this and your comments make it all the more interesting. Here’s the law again: BRIBERY NOT INVOLVING PUBLIC SERVANTS S 180.00 Commercial bribing in the second degree. A person is guilty of commercial bribing in the second degree when he confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any benefit…
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Al Baker reports in the Times: Any officer stopping a person in the street must tell the person “the reason, or reasons, why it occurred,” according to a letter from Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. The policy took effect April 23, according to a departmental order to revise the police patrol guide.…Street stops jumped to…
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The court just ruled that police can no longer search a car incident to arrest… assuming the car isn’t within reach of the arrested person and there is no reason to suspect that the car contains evidence related to the arrest. Since New York v. Belton(1981), police have assumed that they can search a car…
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In town for a conference, a director of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is detained by TSA at the St. Louis airport because when asked to explain why he’s carrying $4,700 in cash (it was proceeds from book and ticket sales at the conference), he asks the agents to tell him what law requires him…
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Officially, the NYPD stopped and frisked 531,000 people last year. That’s a lot. They resulted in 31,665 arrests and 34,081 summonses. Because of the 4th Amendment, you need “probable cause” for a search or arrest. A search happens once you go inside pockets or look for anything accept weapons (drugs do come to mind). Because…
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I just received this interesting email from the po-po in Vermont (oh, I chuckle at my own wit… because somehow I imagine police in Vermont don’t get called “po-po” much). Professor, Love reading your web site. I like your perspectives on these issues you write about. I was just reading your articles on “Balancing Security…
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