{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e3852cbdb67c0f94f393857/5e38537d94ec4b4a36d447c9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy","description":"<p>What’s a pretextual police stop? When do police need your consent to a search, and are these searches unconstitutional? <br /><br />Jonathan Blanks joins us this week to share his findings on how police searches disproportionately affect minorities.<br /><br /><strong>Show Notes and Further Reading</strong><br /><br />Jonathan Blanks’s “<a href=\"http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/articles/blanks-cwrlr-v66n4.pdf\">Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy</a>” appears in Volume 66, Issue 4 of the <em>Case Western Reserve Law Review</em>.<br /><br />Here’s a previous Free Thoughts episode with <a href=\"http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/problem-police-misconduct\">Blanks on police misconduct</a>. Listeners may also be interested in this Free Thoughts episode with Adam Bates and Matthew Feeney on <a href=\"http://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/how-new-technology-is-changing-law-enforcement\">how new technologies are changing law enforcement</a>.<br /><br />Blanks mentions this article by <a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/\">George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson in the March 1982 issue of <em>The Atlantic</em></a>, which originated the “broken windows” theory of policing.<br /><br />Aaron mentions watching <a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066999/\">the 1971 Don Siegel film <em>Dirty Harry</em></a>, starring Clint Eastwood.<br /><br /></p>","author_name":"Libertarianism.org"}