> Random anecdote; for some (I suppose obvious) reason a surprising number of drug dealers are caught because they are caught carrying weapons - which leads to

> Random anecdote; for some (I suppose obvious) reason a surprising number of drug dealers are caught because they are caught carrying weapons - which leads to searches, which leads to the drugs. How do they get "caught carrying weapons" without a search to find said weapons? (Terry v Ohio explains some of this, but note that Terry lets police search you even if you're not carrying.) If our goal is to catch drug dealers, we could just let cops search based on hunches. After all, those hunches are fairly accurate. > At least; that is my impression from the cases I see. And those cases are representative of what?