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57 Am. U. L. Rev. 1587 (2007-2008)
The High-Crime Area Question: Requiring Verifiable and Quantifiable Evidence for Fourth Amendment Reasonable Suspicion Analysis

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THE HIGH-CRIME AREA QUESTION:
REQUIRING VERIFIABLE AND
QUANTIFIABLE EVIDENCE FOR FOURTH
AMENDMENT REASONABLE SUSPICION
ANALYSIS
ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON*
DAMIEN BERNACHE*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.    High-Crime    Areas   and    the   Fourth   Amendment's
Reasonable Suspicion Requirement ....................................... 1595
A. The History of the Use of the Term        High-Crime
Area in  the  Suprem e  Court ............................................ 1595
1.  Te ry  v.  O hio  .................................................................. 1596
2.  High-crim e  areas after  Terry ....................................... 1598
B. Illinois v. Wardlow. High-Crime Areas and Reasonable
Su sp icio n  ........................................................................... 160 1
* Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, LL.M., 2004, Georgetown University Law School;J.D.,
2000, University of Pennsylvania Law School, is a Staff Attorney at the Public Defender
Service for the District of Columbia. All views expressed are personal opinions and
do not reflect the institutional views of the Public Defender Service. Much thanks to
Alissa Starzak, John and Karen Ferguson, Professor David Rudovsky, Professor Abbe
Smith, and Professor John Copacino and numerous colleagues who have discussed
this idea with the author.
** Damien Bernache, J.D., 2005, University of the District of Columbia (David A.
Clarke School of Law), is a Staff Attorney, Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee. All
views expressed are personal opinions and do not reflect the views of the
Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee.

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