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collective knowledge doctrine  

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  • The collective knowledge doctrine combines the knowledge of all police in a chain of instructions leading to a search or seizure. This combined knowledge becomes the basis for determining whether the police acted with probable cause or reasonable suspicion, as required by the Fourth Amendment. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Collective Knowledge Doctrine]

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