Is methamphetamine ever immediately transformed into a high crime area?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Gallant, 225 Cal.App.3d 200, 275 Cal.Rptr. 50 (Cal. App. 1990):

Once again, we disagree. We question whether a single residence is immediately transformed into a "high crime area" by the one-time discovery of several baggies of methamphetamine. Moreover, whatever history of illicit activity is necessary for a place to earn the reputation for a high level of crime, and whatever the geographical extent of such an area, it is settled that the presence of a person in such an area, by itself, is "not sufficient to justify interference with an otherwise innocent-appearing citizen." (People v. Holloway, supra, at p. 155, 221 Cal.Rptr. 394.) That a person chooses to "visit relatives or friends" who reside in a high crime area does not justify police in viewing that visit with suspicion. (People v. Bower (1979) 24 Cal.3d 638, 645, 156 Cal.Rptr. 856, 597 P.2d 115.)

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