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On Our Watch : NPR (podcast, 46 minutes)
Perceived Threat
Listen to the account of a police-citizen interaction in Stockton, CA, and note the ways in which possible (though not necessarily plausible) explanations from a plainclothes police officer about why a 16-year-old boy in a "high crime area" posed a threat to him as he was exiting a convenience store. Consider whether reasonable suspicion in this case provides any meaningful limit on police-citizen interactions. TW: this incident involves violence.
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