The Mere Inquiry

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this rerun episode, Dennis explains the legality of the mere inquiry and how it is an effective tool for officers on the beat. Recorded on 03/20/2017. If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining

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0:00.0	One another one that's going to be on the other way.
0:03.0	Uh-huh.
0:05.0	And uh-huh. You trying to be a street cop?
0:10.0	Sorry for those you just tuned in, I was
0:14.0	I was a connection issue again, it's a freaking thing.
0:16.4	But we're good, we're back to where we need to be.
0:19.0	Today we're talking about the New York Inquiry
0:20.8	and the constitutional justification.
0:22.1	I'll have to just talk to somebody.
0:24.0	And this is the guy who just wrote into me a couple days ago
0:27.0	about the train interdiction, some more clues about it.
0:29.0	I'll be honest if you did a very little bit of train interdiction.
0:32.0	I did some of it and really I use this
0:34.8	this law to do that. You can use this at any time, at any place without any kind of
0:39.4	reasonable suspicion or any kind of justification. As a police officer, basically you're allowed to talk to people.
0:45.2	So I'm going to read you just some things from my notes here.
0:47.4	The mere inquiry needs no constitutional justification.
0:51.2	A law enforcement officer needs no constitutional justification to approach an individual on the
0:55.4	street or in another public place and ask if the individual is willing to
0:59.8	answer some questions and ask the individual questions if he's willing to listen.
1:04.8	State versus Davis, 1986 and see Florida versus Royer, which is the United States Supreme Court
1:10.0	case out of 1983. That's ROY ER and I'm going to Google that, put that up here and you
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