Being suspicious of someone is not necessarily bad for police officers, as long as you have reason to suspect. For example, have you ever seen someone you've never seen before walking through your neighborhood? Law enforcement patrols the streets to make sure nothing suspicious is happening. There have been cases where the police have been accused of arresting people for no reason. Some say they were racially profiled. Regardless, police must have reasonable suspicion to arrest someone. The term reasonable suspicion is a lower standard than probable cause. This is a general belief that a crime is occurring or has occurred. Reasonable suspicion cannot just be a hunch. This must be based on the facts available and the reasoning from those facts that will lead someone else, in the same circumstances, to believe that a crime has been committed. Standard reasonable suspicion only allows law enforcement to temporarily detain, question, and search. It does not allow officers to search or seize, as that will require probable cause. Probable cause is a set of facts and circumstances that would lead someone to believe that someone else committed a specific crime. Probable cause is the next level of belief to stop, search, and charge someone with a crime. Racial profiling, a controversial issue, has become a common problem in policing. Some said they were stopped because they were black or Hispanic. Racial profiling is a different issue; reasonable suspicion cannot be based solely on race or ethnicity. For example, from personal experience, I generally think that anyone who arrives late is suspicious. If I see someone walking around the neighborhood at night, I just observe...... middle of paper ...... occurring in predominated areas. People might say they're being racially profiled, but if it's in an area where predominantly Hispanics or African Americans live, that's not the case. Regardless of the situation, an officer must lay out the facts and see if there is reasonable suspicion to arrest someone. Law enforcement officers need a reason to arrest you. Remember that this cannot be a simple intuition of the police officer. Their action must be supported by facts that led them to believe that you or someone else had committed a crime. Like the Supreme Court cases we reviewed, all involved reasonable suspicion in one way or another. Reasonable suspicion is the standard police officers need to stop and search someone. They will need probable cause, a higher standard, to search and arrest a person. Remember, officers must have reasonable suspicion to stop, question and search for weapons..