Unlimited and Unchecked Power: The Use of Secret Evidence Law

Mohamad G. Alkadry

Chapter 7 in State Crimes Against Democracy, 2013, pp 156-178 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The latest immigration bill in Arizona requires police officers to question people about their immigration status if they have reason to suspect that one is illegally in the country. How does one look “illegally in the country”? Luckily, policy makers do not have to sort through that. Policy makers would leave that decision to individual police officers and their alien radar — illegal alien radar, that is. Perhaps the illegal alien radar they have is a form of craft and professional skill that street-level administrators have relied on for decades or centuries. Law enforcement officers will know and their suspicion is by definition “reasonable”, and reasonable suspicion is now better defined by Arizona law.

Keywords: Hate Crime; Administrative Action; Wrongful Conviction; Reasonable Suspicion; American Civil Liberty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137286987_8

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