"I can't fathom how it isn't a violation of the Constitution to (ostensibly) search every individual driving along a major highway. What ever happened to 'probabale cause'?"
How can someone possibly not 'fathom' a scenario?
There's someone shooting at people/cops, car chase, prison break out, or some kind of major violent criminal moving down the highway - they may roughly what he looks like, i.e. race and gender, hence, people who fit this profile get flagged, those that don't move on.
How hard is that to imagine?
Surely it's pretty rare, but surely such situations happen.
I've literally never seen anything like that in my entire life so it's probably not like the police are likely to be acting outrageously disproportionately. But I don't know, maybe you can look it up. But it's certainly easy to see scenarios in which many might want this to be public policy given certain scenarios.
How can someone possibly not 'fathom' a scenario?
There's someone shooting at people/cops, car chase, prison break out, or some kind of major violent criminal moving down the highway - they may roughly what he looks like, i.e. race and gender, hence, people who fit this profile get flagged, those that don't move on.
How hard is that to imagine?
Surely it's pretty rare, but surely such situations happen.
I've literally never seen anything like that in my entire life so it's probably not like the police are likely to be acting outrageously disproportionately. But I don't know, maybe you can look it up. But it's certainly easy to see scenarios in which many might want this to be public policy given certain scenarios.