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Cell Phones And The Criminal Justice System

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Nobody wants to get in trouble by the police. Whether it be monitoring a speed trap or asking questions about a person who might have connections to crime, police officers have done many actions which are in the name of protecting the public and promoting justice. However, like many institutions of government, the technological revolution in the last few years has flown over the heads of many officers until now. Cell phones are devices which the common person cannot live without. It is the modern form of communication by which people connect with each other. Cell phones are so prominent in society that many police departments want to browse through these devices when doing a standard search procedure. This goes against the 4th amendment of
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1. Warrantless search of cell phones implicates substantial greater risk of intruding upon an individual’s privacy. In this case, digital data is involved, more substantial privacy interest of an individual are at stake. Further owing to the nature in which digital data is stored, search of evidence on cell phones may extend beyond the physical proximity of an arrestee, thus the need for police officers to acquire a search warrant. Court

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As a personal equipment, it has lots of privacy, and does the police officers have rights to search the phone without warrant. In Riley’s case, the phone is a smart phone and has lots of function include the modification of information in the long range. This is could eliminate the evidence. The police officers could search the smart phone to prevent. In Wurie’s case, compare smart phone, the flip phone has the less function and information.

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A warrant is not needed in the search of the cell phone records. The Fourth Amendment is not violated as the cell phone records are not showing the exact location and conversations of the cell phone user, but just rather the tower that the phone was connected too. The location of the tower only indicates that the cell phone user is within a certain radius from the tower. The user before getting a cellphone usually knows that their phones are connected to the towers, and the information that is present in a cell phone record is usually shared within a company for reasons such as product development to marketing or to know where weak spots exist in the network and where roaming charges must be applied. Therefore, the use of cell phone records without a warrant is not violating the Fourth amendment, as the information coming from the records is information that the user knows that they are sharing with the cellphone provider

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“Riley v. California”) Bensur and Brokamp say in their article that in court, Riley claimed that his Fourth Amendment right was violated because the officers did not have probable cause also called reasonable suspicion to examine his phone. The case went to the Supreme Court and the judges agreed that the police had acted

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An excellent example of the innovative use of technology is ICAM (Information Collection for Automated Mapping)—an easy-to-use, PC-based, mouse-driven mapping system created by Chicago police officers. ICAM has been installed in all twenty-five of our police district stations so that police personnel—from beat officers to commanders—can quickly and easily generate maps showing the crime patterns in their particular neighborhoods. Just as important, ICAM is allowing police personnel to share this information with the community, so that it can be better informed and empowered to solve problems. ICAM is only one example of how we are using technology to support police.” Community members have been given cell phones specifically for contacting their beat officers quickly.

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An officer could physically search the cell phone and it 's case for weapons, such as a razor blade. The State countered that the suspect 's cell phone could be used to call associates to aid him, which would affect officer safety. Allowing the officer to search the cell phone without a warrant might give him/her warning that someone is coming. On the point of protecting evidence from concealment or destruction, Riley argued that once a cell phone has been seized, there is no need for the officer to search the digital contents to protect it. The State countered, saying that the data on a cell phone, when in custody of police, is subject to

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The judge in the specific Milwaukee case stated that “A person wanted on probable cause (and an arrest warrant) who is taken into custody in a public place where he had no legitimate expectation of privacy cannot complain about how the police learned his location” This argument doesn’t make much sense if you change it to be about something other than a phone. If the police searched the man’s house without a warrant in order to learn his location, then in court any evidence that they obtained within the house would be thrown out. The judge is pretty much

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The Fourth Amendment to the United States Consitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. The common misconception is that it simply covers what it states. In the age of development and new technology, it is likely that what we consider secrets or personal information is not as secret or personal as we once believed. Important pieces of evidence or information have often been found through illegal means, and this has led to many cases that change the way the constitution and the Fourth Amendment affect

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Unreasonable search and seizure is an asset in this country. It is an asset in this country because the police have to have rules also. If America did away with the fourth Amendment there would not be any crime because the police will be able to arrest anyone without probable cause. The police would have such much power that people will be afraid to even drive through a stop sign.

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This notion that the federal government can monitor everyone’s phone data is a major departure from how Americans have traditionally viewed the role of the government. If this is acceptable practice, as the white house and many in both parties now say it is, then there are literally no constitutional protections that can be guaranteed anymore to citizens. In the name of security, the Constitution has become negotiable.” Because of this, the American

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Cell phone can unveil information within our call history, text messages, pictures, and even internet searches. Access to our cell phones is like access to our lives. No matter how much time passes, the fourth amendment continues to

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From a time immorial the police have been a very intrigal part of the our social life. Be it the gupta period or the shivajian era, or the dark times of the east india company. Police has been omni present in the social order. One can not overlook the importance of police in the peaceful wellbeing of the state. But with the change in the attitude of the state towords its citizens the roll of police has also changed.

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Technology is said to play a major role in today’s society and as seem to be a natural component of one’s personal lives. Over the years, technologies have been blamed for the increase in crime rate, whereas persons hope that the use of technology can reduce the increased level of crime. According to the businessdictionary.com, “technology is the purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilization of goods and services, and in the organization of human activities”. Faith (2015) states that the use of technologies in policing has recent advances and changes in both the hard and soft technologies of policing used by law enforcement departments in a wide range of contexts.

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