[William Tell]

LightCrusader said: "If you are engaging in suspicious activity then there may be a problem for you. Otherwise, don't worry about it. The police aren't looking for you."

Don't criminals know this? Wouldn't it be suspicious, then, if someone appeared to be purposely NOT acting suspicious? Isn't "suspicion" just a way of describing a situation where there is NO probable cause?

How would you characterize the level of suspicion required to search you, your family, your vehicle, or your home? Since "suspicion" is not a legal term, I don't understand what you are advocating.

What level of cash is not suspicious? When they passed the law requiring reports from banks, I believe it was $10,000. Doesn't that immediately make $9999 a suspicious amount?

What financial transactions can be afforded the presumption of innocence using your standard?

[Graybeard58]

Isn't "suspicion" just a way of describing a situation where there is NO probable cause?

That is excatly right. "Suspicion" is highly subjective.

When my son was 17-20 years old there was a period when he was stopped and had his car searched on an almost daily basis. Nothing illegal was ever found.

I went to the cheif and did a little figurative desk pounding and he explained to me that it was because of my boys age. He also told me that his own son was frequently stopped and searched.

When I let him know I would start documenting these "searches" and would talk to an attorney they mysteriously stopped.

Profiling? Most likely, but being 17 years old doesn't make a kid a drug user and it's harrassment no matter what else it is called.

[TUX]

The big problem for the dealers is laundering the cash receipts. Car Dealers, Furniture Stores, and many mom and pop businesses are more than willing to factor the cash for 10-20 percent. Good church going folks are running the cash through legit businesses.

Wrote programs to monitor these cash deposits through banks. Out of range deposits are reported to authorities. The DEA IRS know these folks and monitors them carefully.

Probably a delivery to several laundering businesses. Three and a half million in small bills is a truck load of cash.

[jb6]

I wonder how many misses these guys get before they hit cash. My car has been searched several times and it's rather amusing to watch the idjit with the badge try to explain just why he searched my car. One idjit in Alabama, while I was heading to Florida with friends, after searching my car tried to explain that the dealer's border on my tags was blocking the view of my tags and he couldn't read them so that's why he pulled me over and searched my car through and through.

I'm sick and tired of this kind of crap unLaw "enforcement".