Opinion ID: 164535
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Heading: The War Zone

Text: 35 The only factor the district court found relevant to the reasonable suspicion analysis was the dangerousness of the area in which the stop took place. Quoting Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119, 124, 120 S.Ct. 673, 145 L.Ed.2d 570 (2000), the district court correctly acknowledged that the nature of the area in which a detention takes place is a relevant consideration in the Terry analysis. The court went on, however, to find the following statement in Wardlow controlling: An individual's presence in an area of expected criminal activity, standing alone, is not enough to support a reasonable, particularized suspicion that the person is committing a crime. 528 U.S. at 124, 120 S.Ct. 673. Given our discussion above of the numerous factors erroneously rejected by the district court, this latter statement obviously does not apply in this case. 4