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Intelligence and Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
A term used when officers are in a location legally and have the right to see said items. The officer has the right to be able to collect the item(s) as evidence.
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Law Enforcement Challenges to Gathering Intelligence in the Street: The Fourth Amendment
Joseph R. Budd (Campbellsville University, USA) and Michael W. Littrell (Campbellsville University, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7904-6.ch002
Abstract
Intelligence gathering by law enforcement officers has been used in the conviction of criminals for many years in the United States. Law enforcement officers must ensure that the information gathered and seized does not violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. However, officers, even though acting in the spirit of the law, may not be in legal compliance. This chapter identifies and discusses the requirements of a search warrant, the legally accepted exceptions to the search warrant requirements in the United States, and reviews several historical and modern United States Supreme Court cases on the gathering of intelligence by officers.
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