This chapter basically details what are the procedures and basic ways of implementing them as far as being a law enforcer. The chapter starts out with a case of a fifteen year old who was illegally search for a gun and was brought up to U.S Supreme Court. Next the book gave more examples of the role of police officers and reasonable suspicion and stop and frisk incidents like Terry v. Ohio and Florida v. J. L.. Many are confused with what are the differences between a frisk, search and seizure. The book gives a good example by narrowing it down. A frisk is performed by patting down outer clothing, a search is simply an exploration for evidence and finally seizures are the confiscation of sorts of property. An important term I found on the chapter was the exclusionary rule which holds that illegally seized evidence must be excluded from trials. This rule has gotten a lot of criminals from being convicted because of the law enforcement’s fault of using a search or arrest warrant in a wrong way. A good example of the use of the exclusionary rule was in the case of Mapp v. Ohio case. Another important term is the Miranda warning or rights. Which was derived from the case of Miranda v. Arizona. The purpose of it is to provide the arrestee fair notice of their basic constitutional rights so that they can remind the arrestee of what he or she can or can’t do for the moments being.
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