Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause for Police Officers

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Compare/contrast reasonable suspicion and probable cause.Provide one example of a traffic stop involving reasonable suspicion and one involving probable cause.
Both reasonable suspicion and probable cause are evidentiary thresholds that serve to protect the right to privacy of a civilian, as well as their right from unlawful arrest and unreasonable searches and seizures. Alternatively, reasonable suspicion and probable cause serve as enabling circumstances for the state to lawfully encroach into a private person’s right to privacy or freedom from arrest through its law enforcement officers.
Reasonable suspicion grants a police officer the legal right to perform a search. (Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) A police officer acquires a reasonable suspicion of the commission of a crime is, based on all the facts and circumstances of the situation, a reasonable person would have the same suspicion. Not any kind of suspicion would suffice; it must be reasonable. It cannot be a mere &ld...