[434] in libertarians
[sybok@MIT.EDU: article in NYT about gun control]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (damartin@ampere.mit.edu)
Sun Nov 27 20:24:09 1994
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1994 20:23:05 -0500
From: damartin@ampere.mit.edu
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
>I thought the Supreme Court ruled that searches of the passenger
>compartment of a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation were not
>legal unless (1) the person is arrested, or (2) the officer has
>specific and articulable fear to his safety. (If the person gives
>consent of course, the search would be legal.)
The police programs are targeting high crime urban areas. In
other words, places where people don't have much economic or political
power to resist the police if they get out of hand. You can imagine
the uproar that would take place if they started searching cars in
Beverly Hills without a good reason.
-David Martin
