Re: PDAs are searchable by cops, I expect. Re: Transparency, was re: On January 28th, Criminals No Longer Another Face ...

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 12:28:32 MST

At 12:16 PM -0600 2/5/01, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>I think as long as we don't commit any crimes, we don't have so much
>to concern
>us.

This is not true. When I was 20, I used to teach computer seminars
at my company's Ft. Lauderdale division every weekend for a while. I
looked younger for my age. I was driving a Trans Am, wearing a suit,
with a briefcase in the passenger seat, and kept under the speed
limit driving down I-95 on weekends. I fit many of the profiling
attributes of a young drug dealer. As such, I was stopped and
searched on most trips. They would go through my checkbook, my
briefcase, my cell-phone, everything. I tried giving them
permission to search, I tried denying them permission to search, but
nothing worked. You might think that they might learn to recognize
me, but this made it even worse, when one of the cops would remember
having stopped me on suspicion on previous occasions. I have even
had guns drawn on me once when I said that I would not consent to a
search. Being law abiding offers no protection from the police. 

-- 
Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>

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