s (Hallinan 1).The following is an example of what happened just outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania. A motorist by the name of George Karnes was pulled over by state trooper Thomas Krutski for going 82 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. The trooper then wrote him a ticket for the offense. This is where the stop should have been over. Then the trooper asked to search the car. Karnes said no because there was no reason but the trooper did not let him go. Police are instructed that once a motorist refuses a search, police must let him go. Then the officer called in a K-9 officer, who promptly arrived on the scene. The officer asked Karnes three separate times to search the car. All three times he refused so the officer then brought out the drug-sniffing dog. Twice the dog sniffed his way around the car. Both times the dog found no detection of drugs. Finally, two and a half-hours after he was first pulled over, the troopers let George Karnes go (Hallnian 2). The process that just took place above was an example of police overstepping their boundaries and easily intimidating common citizens for no apparent reason. Police Officers Often Misuse and Overuse their Powers when it comes to Conducting Searches on Persons or PropertyMany other forms of harassment occur by police officers and even security officers. There are countless incidents in which police believe they have the right to search your travel bags, luggage, purse, bus or train somebody is riding on, or even just stop a person for a terry search when they are walking on the street.In an Illinois case more that half of the justices expressed concern over the power that gives police the power to search anyone who flees from police. (The case argues that William Waldrow had the right to run when he saw four police cruisers drive by in a high crime neighborhood.) Police got out, chased him and found an illegal handgun in his possession. The Illinois Supreme Co...
