Civil rights and liberties are basic ingredients of a democracy. Civil rights are the laws that protects us against discrimination on various basis such as gender‚ race‚ class‚ etc. These are the laws that government promises equality to all its citizens. Civil liberties in the other hand is associated with other rights and freedoms that are guaranteed by the government. Civil rights and government are both similar and different in some ways. They both serve democracy but hold different responsibilities
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and search a “suspicious character” if they deem him/her to be as such. They don’t need a warrant‚ or see you commit a crime. 5They simply need to deem you “suspicious” to violate your 4th amendment rights without repercussions. Since its inception‚ New York City’s stop and frisk program has drawn much controversy stemming from the disproportionate rate of arrest. While the argument that the program violates an individual’s 4th amendment right of protection from unreasonable search and seizure could
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rights and equal protection of the law including minors. The fourth amendment also states and proves the right of the people to be “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by oath or affirmation‚ and particularly describing
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is in plain sight. This rule is limited by probable cause which requires police officers to have probable cause and believe the items in plain view are evidence before they seize them. The fourth amendment does prevent unreasonable searches and seizures. There are two ways the rule can be used. 1. The officer is at the place where the seized item(s) is in plain view. 2. The incriminating object is immediately apparent. An example of this would be if an officer was called to a domestic call and
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policing‚ especially when it comes to effective community oriented policing. The police searches are governed by the fourth amendment that provides protection against illegal search and seizure and requires that the issuing of warrants is based on probable cause. Gould and Mastrofski focus on warrant less searches. A legal search must be based on the concept of probable cause. As cited in our text book‚ The Police‚ probable cause is information that is "sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of
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around them. Everybody get on the floor then a blue van arrived with four officers. All of the police officers started were running and had their guns out and told Ourlicht that they had received reports of a gun in the area. The officers began to search Ourlicht and lifted him by the
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“Best” Sergeant Crouch obtained search warrants for Voyles home and work computers where the Arlington Police Department found and “seized child pornography off the hard drives of each unit.” Voyles was charged and indicted for possession of child pornography which is a third degree felony. In 2002‚ alleging that the evidence that the Arlington Police Department obtained from both his home and work computers was inadmissible claiming an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the First and
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Connor Beale English 7 Corruption Imagine your walking down the street minding your own business and suddenly you have an officer waving a badge in your face. The officer begins to feel you up and grope you. Grabbing whatever is in your pocket and tossing it around without concern. Stop and frisk is the controversial policing tactic when street cops looking for weapons and drugs stop and pat down civilians at random. Since 1968 the stop and frisk law has resulted in sexual
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I. THE FOURTH AMENDMENT SHOULD CONTROL MALICIOUS PROSECUTION CLAIMS INVOLVING PRETRAIL DETENTIONS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE Years ago this Court instructed that the Fourth Amendment should be used to analyze allegedly unconstitutional “detention[s] of suspects pending trial.” Gerstein v. Pugh‚ 420 U.S. 103‚ 125 n.27 (1975). Since then this Court has reaffirmed that the “detention of criminal suspects” is “governed by the provisions of the Fourth Amendment.” Albright v. Oliver‚ 510 U.S. 266‚ 274 (1994)
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The Constitution and The facts The Constitution contains the ten amendments all of which I will explain in this essay. I will also explain some key facts of which the Constitution is written by and some of the dates in which key points of the Constitution occurred. The Constitution is a very important document which was created more than two hundred years ago. The first amendment is the amendment of is the freedom of religion‚ speech‚ assembly‚ and press. Congress can make no law establishing
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