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There has always been tension between maintaining a safe society and abiding by the constitutional rights of its citizens. However the New York City aggressive program of Stop and Frisk have been widely criticized and considered unconstitutional. However, Stop and Frisk, per se is not unconstitutional unless people are being stopped illegally. It 's a crime prevention tactic that allows police officers to stop a person based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and conduct a frisk based on

Maria Jorge December 01/2014 Stop and Frisk final outline Prof: Maule Brian Introduction: There has always been tension raised between maintaining a safe society and observing by the constitutional rights of its citizens. The New York City aggressive program of Stop and Frisk have been widely criticized and considered unconstitutional. However, Stop and Frisk, per se is not unconstitutional unless people are being stopped illegally. It 's a crime prevention tool that allows police officers to stop

The research problem in Black and Hispanic Men Perceived to Be Large Are at Increased Risk for Police Frisk, Search, and Force, is one in which the bigger or larger the defendants are at risk for experiencing police force mistreatment of racial profiling, with the black and Hispanic men being more likely to experience excessive force than Caucasian men across the same dimensions (Milner, George, & Allison, 2016, p. 1). The particular design of this study was a is a quasi-experimental design, the

The case of Terry v. Ohio took place in 1968. This case involved a Detective who had witnessed three suspicious males patrol a street and stare into a specific window multiple times. With reasonable suspicion and probable cause, Detective McFadden assumed one of them could be armed. He then took one of the males and patted him down to find that he had a pistol on him. He patted the victim down for reasons of protecting himself and others in the community. The Fourth Amendment does include, “The right

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution states as follows: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” (Fourth Amendment, U.S. Constitution). This amendment was set in place to protect society

Program, more commonly known as “stop and frisk” or 250s, authorizes police to stop and question pedestrians and frisk them for weapons or other contrabands. This practice is based on the decision of the United States Supreme Court form the case of Terry v. Ohio. The holding establishes that if there is reasonable suspicion that the person may be dangerous or armed, police can stop him or her without violating the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits

Amendment the legal constraints placed on police and the rules they must follow for “Stop and Frisk” happened as a result of the “Terry v. Ohio “case (162). The constraints are that the police cannot stopped and frisk people without reasonable suspicion probable cause or a warrant. Before 1968 the police could search a suspect only if they had probable cause. After the Terry case the police may conduct a frisk search of a suspect’s outer clothing only if there was reasonable suspicion. The U.S. Supreme

The New York City Police Department has conducted an extreme amount of stops, amounting to half a million because of suspected criminal involvement. The NYPD noticed a large amount of stops and decided to turn to RAND, an organization for research and development issues, to determine issues with their stops. RAND researchers conducted three types of analysis including external benchmarking, internal benchmarking, and how the outcome of stops differed from other stops. The first to be researched,

When it comes to stop-and-frisk and Terry Stop, can be both good thing and bad thing for our country. The good is if officer take there time and observe we can help prevent a lot of crime. On the downside, these officers mostly target African American and Hispanic males. Stop-and- frisk takes place when an officer feels it’s some type of suspicion about a citizen, they then stop you and frisk if they feel is necessary. But not all of those stop and frisk are good, the statistics in New York show

than actual knowledge that the arrestee committed the crime (Peak, 2009). Law enforcement officers need to make certain they understand probable cause is different than reasonable suspicion. A good example of a reasonable suspicion encounter is Terry V. Ohio, where an officer who had 39 years of experience in law enforcement observed two men standing on a street corner. It appeared based on the officer’s experience the two men were casing a store because they both were walking up and down the