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Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendmen In The Public Forum, Marie A. Failinger
Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendmen In The Public Forum, Marie A. Failinger
West Virginia Law Review
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Police Efficiency And The Fourth Amendment, L. Song Richardson
Police Efficiency And The Fourth Amendment, L. Song Richardson
Indiana Law Journal
Much of our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is premised upon a profound misunderstanding of the nature of suspicion. When determining whether law enforcement officers had the reasonable suspicion necessary to justify a “stop and frisk,” courts currently assume that, in any given case, the presence or absence of reasonable suspicion can objectively be determined simply by examining the factual circumstances that the officers confronted. This Article rejects that proposition. Powerful new research in the behavioral sciences indicates that implicit, nonconscious biases affect the perceptions and judgments that are integral to our understanding of core Fourth Amendment principles. Studies reveal, for example, …