Right To Know Act Pros And Cons

How would you feel if a random police officer came up to you and decided to search you without your consent? The Fourth Amendment pertains to the safety and privacy of people and their property. In some court cases, the fourth amendment does not provide enough and specified protection for people. If The Right to Know Act is passed, it would provide additional protection towards people and their rights.This bill would require police officers to identify themselves by providing their names and rank before searching a member of the public. Although people’s rights are protected under the fourth amendment, the Right to Know Act should be passed because it would improve the interaction between citizens and officers and there is precedent in the supreme court case, …show more content…
People of society are intimidated by police officers and they [officers] often take advantage of people’s vulnerability. “Unreasonable searches” are conducted due to the fact that: “Police officers too often take advantage of our communities’ lack of understanding about their right to refuse searches and their right to insist on the officer’s identification” (Toor 3). As stated in the Fourth Amendment, people are entitled to being “secured in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures” (US Const. Amend. XVI, sec.3). Many people are not aware of their rights to be “secure” against “unreasonable searches”, so they unintentionally bypass their rights as an individual when it comes to an interaction with an officer. Police officers make use of the fact that people are unaware of their rights by obtaining items from unreasonable searches. Antonio Reynoso, a Dominican individual, had believed that everything was done by procedure until he became a council member, where he soon realized that the search that the police conducted