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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
i.e. you can't search someone just for looking a certain way. the police can't search Jamacians just because they are more likely to be carrying weed. So all the police can do is ask to search they bag or refuse entry to the train. this seems like a waste of time.
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Well, perhaps not but obviously you can search someone who "matches the description" of someone they are looking for. Since most descriptions are hopelessly vague ("black male between 18 and 25 of about 6ft tall) you can quasi-legitimately search lots of people for the way they look.