Reply #144: What your describing is NOT reasonable suspicion

[Indy Lurker]

"This is the worry: that a police officer will have a lawful contact with someone with a non-white skin color and/or an accent- walking past each other down the street and saying "Hi", for example- and that, on the basis of skin color, clothes, and/or an accent (appearances), the officer will have the reasonable suspicion required to ask them for their "papers."

Reasonable suspicion is a well defined legal concept, with over 40 years of history. What your describing is not reasonable suspicion.

You can not be "Stopped" (involuntairly detained) without reasonable suspicion. You do not have to produce ID unless there is reasonable suspicion you committed a crime (such as being in the state illegally)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_suspicion