What exactly is reasonable suspicion and how is it different than officer’s discretion?

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What exactly is reasonable suspicion and how is it different than officer’s discretion?

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Reasonable suspicion means that:

A reasonable person in the officers place would suspect that a crime has taken place or is in progress.

> how is it different than officer’s discretion.

per Terry V Ohio

It must be based on “specific and articulable facts”, “taken together with rational inferences from those facts” and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.

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