Homework #13

Why is bag searching ACCORDING to the US Supreme Court legal, even though it seems to go against the 4th amendment? Do you agree or disagree with police stopping you and recording your name to a date base? DO you think this stops crime? Post your answers to your blog and write in complete sentences, no less then 8 sentences.

According to the Supreme Court, the bag searching is legal as long as there is a "clear and present danger".  I agree with this decision.  The Police are trying to keep the people safe by searching bags of people on the subway to prevent any potentially dangerous situations on the subways.  The bag searches are quick and random, so they don't waste anybody's time and can hardly be considered unreasonable.  I don't believe that the Police should be stopping people and recording their information.  Recording the personal information of people that are randomly stopped on the streets will not help to prevent crimes from happening. Doing so should really be considered an invasion of privacy and unreasonable.  Also, there is nothing stopping someone from exploiting that information that has been wrongly taken.