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They can suspect all they want, but stopping an questioning someone simply due to their presence on a public street, in the absence of an exceptional situation or investigation, is not acceptable.

Indeed, though note that in many places (notably New York City), people can be stopped on the street with even less of a pretense of probable cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

This proposed law does sound stupid to me and not just for reasons parent said. I also strongly disagree with "area is considered crimey, therefore we effectively void protections for citizens entering it".

I also think that laws designed to be broken so that you can throw false "should have follow law" excuses once cops selectively enforce it are lowering respect to law enforcement.

> The government is required to respect privacy, not to be stupid

There's absolutely no requirement to 'respect privacy.'

The 4th amendment doesn't use that word, but that's the general thrust.

In Roe vs Wade the Supreme Court found a right to privacy. The fact that this is not in the Bill of Rights is irrelevant, as per the Ninth Amendment.

It depends how you define privacy.