Historically, vagrancy laws were used by law enforcement ___________

a. to arrest residents of “skid row” who ventured into “respectable” neighborhoods
b. to detain suspicious persons pending further investigation
c. as a pretext to conduct searches incident to arrest
d. all of these


Answer: D

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