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Hello everyone. It s Anthony Bandiero, attorney and legal instructor for Blue to Gold Law Enforcement Training. Here is today s question. Can cops automatically tow a rental car if the driver is not on the rental agreement? Well, the answer is that we don t really have a lot of case on this very issue. Because really,
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Anthony Bandiero here to bring you another chat. We’ve got an excellent question here from an officer in California. The officer is basically asking, “Can police go into a neighbor s backyard during a SWAT operation?” Excellent question. So let me give you a little feedback about the scenario here. During a SWAT operation, let s say
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The answer is, “Yes.” Because fingerprints and facial ID are not testimonial, there is no recognized privacy interest in your fingerprints or in your face. So that s generally the case. I m also thinking of mass facial recognition software that you re putting downtown, and you re identifying everybody who is downtown. That implicates a different constitutional principle,
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We have a great question here today from an officer in the great state of Texas. Alright, so the question is, “Can you search a vehicle on curtilage with exigency?” And let s go to the scenario. The officer is called to a noise complaint. Upon arrival at a house, he sees a car in the
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CAN YOU DETAIN A PERSON FOR FALSE ID? This question comes from an officer in Iowa. Can a person be detained if they give you a false name during a consensual encounter? You re having a consensual contact and you ask the person to provide their name and date of birth. They give you a name
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Here is our next question: Can police detain someone to issue a criminal trespass warning if they leave the location after being warned? I ll explain what s kind of going on here. This officer is in Texas. He asks: If a business owner or homeowner has told a subject to leave their property, and that subject
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Here is our next question: Can you use a marijuana trained dog after your state legalizes marijuana? This question came from an officer in Kansas. The officer said, “Hey, I got a question here. You know, our department is implementing a brand new canine program. And apparently the dog is going to be proofed on
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An officer asks where the case is that says police have no duty to protect. It is DeShaney v. Winnebago County, and here is what it actually holds.
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This question came from an officer yesterday in Jefferson County. It was actually kind of interesting, because what she said was, they had a call for service at a hotel, and this guy died, or let s just say this guy was killed in a hotel room. Can we process that scene without a warrant? I
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