Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I don't think so.
I see no reason for an LEO to interact with a person who has done nothing to attract attention or to "search" a criminal database just because the LEO is curious. Searching a database is clearly a search!
Now if RS or PC is developed then I have no issue with doing these checks.
edit to add: I am not anti-LEO. Believe me. But I do think LEO's in general have gone beyond what they should be doing. It is far to common for police to teach a perp a lesson. To shoot first instead of taking less lethal actions. I object strongly for police to have armored vehicles. That is not a police force but an army. I recognize that the threats are real, the bad guys have automatic weapons but some things done by police such as no knock warrants seems wrong to me. Dressing up like Ninjas and attacking in the middle of the night is wrong.
Just to 2 cents.
It is a search of a database it is not a search of a person. If the officer already has a person's information, the person doesn't even have to know that he or she is being run. The only thing that the officer has to be concerned with is that the NCIC check is being done for an official purpose in the performance of his official duties. For instance, I couldn't run my daughters boyfriend just to check him.
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