The suppression court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the bag of cocaine that he dropped when the police, who were conducting a valid neighborhood canvas in search of the complainant's assailants, directed a searchlight at him while he stood under a dark construction awning. The use of searchlights to enhance an officer's normal vision does not constitute a search (People v Miller,
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