Originally Posted by
SWCPHX
Think about it this way, an officer in AZ has a man named Michael Jackson DOB 01/01/1980 stopped for a traffic violation. The officer queries NCIC (a nationwide system), has the officer committed an illegal search against every other Michael Jackson with the same DOB in the United States? Of course not!
In this case the officer would not have stopped the person unless Reasonable Suspicion had not already been present, i.e., a traffic violation.
That is a long way from running a person just because you feel like it.