Valparaiso University Law Review Volume 26 Number 1 Symposium: The Bill of Rights Yesterday and Today: A Bicentennial pp.243-279 Celebration Symposium: The Bill of Rights Yesterday and Today: A Bicentennial Celebration "Black and Blue Encounters" Some Preliminary Thoughts About Fourth Amendment Seizures: Should Race Matter? Tracey Maclin Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Tracey Maclin, "Black and Blue Encounters" Some Preliminary Thoughts About Fourth Amendment Seizures: Should Race Matter?, 26 Val. U. L. Rev. 243 (1991). Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr/vol26/iss1/19 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Valparaiso University Law School at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Valparaiso University Law Review by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at
[email protected]. Maclin: "Black and Blue Encounters" Some Preliminary Thoughts About Fourt "BLACK AND BLUE ENCOUNTERS'" - SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT FOURTH AMENDMENT SEIZURES: SHOULD RACE MATTER? TRACEY MACLIN I. INTRODUCTION Two years ago, a provocative assertion appeared in the editorial pages of the New York Times. It read: "The black American finds that the most prominent reminder of his second-class citizenship are the police.' The author of this sentence, Don Jackson, knew what he was talking about because he is a former police officer, who also happened to be a black man. Part of the foundation for Mr. Jackson's charge is a deep-seated distrust between police officers and black citizens.