Searches & Seizures - April 28-29, 2025

Course Description:

Instead of the standard lecture on what you cannot do when acting under the color of law, this class zeros directly in on ways of fulfilling law enforcement objectives in the face of the law's constrants. Consisting of an interactive multi-media presentation designed to engage the students in thought and discussion with the instructor and each other while learning how to apply the Fourth Amendemnt to both basic and highly complex fact patterns. An absolutely essential class for personnel at all levels, thought in a uniquly daynamic way.

Topics Include:

• Consensual Encounters, Right to Approach, Terry Stops, and Arrests
• Motorists, Passengers, Cars & Conveyances
• Pretextual Detentions
• Managing Detainees
• Weapons Searches vs. Contraband Searches
• Scope of Search & Damaging Private Property
• Consent Searches
• Exegencies
• Knock & Talks
• "Open Fields"
• How to Effectively Articulate Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause
• Prolonged Detentions & Uncooperative Subjects
• Use or Deployment of a K-9

Host or Publisher J.P. Nixon