{"id":45186,"date":"2016-10-31T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=45186"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:31:24","slug":"what-constitutes-reasonable-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/what-constitutes-reasonable-suspicion\/","title":{"rendered":"What Constitutes \u201cReasonable Suspicion\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/what_constitutes_reasonable_suspicion.jpg\" alt=\"What Constitutes \u201cReasonable Suspicion\u201d?\" width=\"755\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45188 size-full\" title=\"What Constitutes \u201cReasonable Suspicion\u201d?\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/faculty\/full-time\/shea-cronin\/\">Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Shea Cronin<\/a> was quoted in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2016\/0922\/Reasonable-suspicion-defined-Black-men-who-run-from-police-can-t-be-assumed-guilty\"><em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a> article entitled \u201c\u2018Reasonable suspicion\u2019 defined: Black men who run from police can&#8217;t be assumed guilty.\u201d The article outlines a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that takes aim at racial profiling and states that black males \u201cwhen approached by the police, might just as easily be motivated by the desire to avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled as by the desire to hide criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Cronin, \u201cThe courts seem to be consistently sending signals to law enforcement agencies that they have to pay closer attention to the meaning of reasonable suspicion in their interactions with the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2016\/0922\/Reasonable-suspicion-defined-Black-men-who-run-from-police-can-t-be-assumed-guilty\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Shea Cronin was quoted in a recent Christian Science Monitor article entitled \u201c\u2018Reasonable suspicion\u2019 defined: Black men who run from police can&#8217;t be assumed guilty.\u201d The article outlines a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that takes aim at racial profiling and states that black males \u201cwhen approached by the police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,37,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45186\/revisions\/63931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}