Investigative Stops in High Crime Areas

Authors

Richard A. Gonzales, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1980

Abstract

This article questions what constitutes reasonable suspicion of criminal activity particularly within high crime area. Some of the referenced cases:

• People v. Cantor, 36 N.Y.2d 106, 365 N.Y.S.2d 509, 324 N.E.2d 872 (1975)
• U.S. v. Magda, 409 F.Supp. 734,740 (S.D. N.Y. 1976)
• Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 ( 1968)
• Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40 ( 1968)
• U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873 (1975)
• U.S. v. Flores, 462 F. Supp. 702 (E.D. NS. 1978)
• U.S. v. Oates, 560 F.2d 45, 49 (2d Cir. 1977)
• U.S. v. Constantine, 567 F.2d 266 ( 4th Cir. 1977)
• People v. Bower, 24 Cal. 3d 638, 156 Cal. Rptr. 856, 597 P.2d 115 (1979)

Publisher

Clark Boardman Company, Ltd.

Publication Title

Search and Seizure Law Report

Editor

Justin D. Franklin

Volume

7

Issue

1

First Page

1

Last Page

6

Recommended Citation

Richard A. Gonzales, Investigative Stops in High Crime Areas, 7 Search and Seizure Law Report 1 (1980).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/662