Sometimes, these events may just be inconvenient, especially if they are not accompanied by a mere stop the search. But they may also lead to humiliation, and even unjust detention. David Harris (1999) describes in detail the general African-Americans have with the police stop and search, his experience has shown how these events are shrouded in their lives. None of this is a suggestion to avoid innocent people completely stopped. Police will continue to need to stop innocent people as they try to find the guilty, so all innocent citizens must be prepared to indulge their liberty, in order to control crime in some of the violations. But legitimate government promised equal treatment of all citizens should strive to ensure that no innocent people bear a disproportionate share of such violations. Police show some respect for civil liberties and the government owe us through the observance of due process rules (for example, do a search only when reasonable suspicion is justified). However, even in these constraints, stop innocent like those still burden the Harris survey.
