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From: scott@normac.UUCP (Scott Bryan)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Violation of civil rights by local police
Message-ID: <113@normac.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 00:10:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 25 00:10:53 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Nov-84 01:42:42 EST
Reply-To: scott@unix.UUCP (Scott Bryan)
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Organization: Normac, Lafayette, Ca.
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Keywords: police law
Summary: Draft Cops

In article <> 6912ar04@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) writes:
>
> Can someone tell me why local police can get away with stopping innocent
>pedestrians approx. 300 feet from a recent bust and insist on searching them,
>when only selected people are searched? Doesn't that come under "illegal search
>and/or seizure"??
>

Most judges and lawyers are hardly competent to evaluate the circumstances
involved in a particular case over the weeks it takes them to study it.
Cases involving the legality of arrests occur regularly.  The law is subtle.
People who understand the law are worth a lot of money to the poor sods who
don't.  Is it likely that such a person would become a cop?

When society demands that attorneys spend the five years after they
graduate law school as police officers then you will be able to ask
the officer why.  Till then you're taking you chances with someone
who's willing to risk their life for 1800$/mo.  There are two kinds:
Saints and Scumbags.  The latter outnumber the former.

Scott Bryan
I've met both.

1) Does anyone understand the law?  Can I go out and get a copy of it?
   (what would I need to carry it home?)  How long would it take me to
   read it?  Is a general understanding sufficient?

Unfortunately, even the most learned lawyer would admit there are many things
about the law that he does not know.  Of course the Police need only concern
himself with criminal law, but this in itself,
If you can tell me why someone capable of understanding our laws