based on careless movements and the lack of proper self composure‚ seems to be justice to me. . (Gaines‚ 2012)"The precedent for the ever-elusive definition of a "reasonable" suspicion in stop-and-frisk situations was established in Terry v. Ohio (1968)" An Ohio detective by the name of McFadden‚ an older detective which held experience in the area‚ noticed two certain individuals acting peculiarly in the downtown beat. Actions such as passing by a store‚ peering into windows‚ and then repositioning
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have been used in a crime resulting in the death of a police officer. This gave Officer Smith reasonable suspicion to believe that a crime there may have been some criminal activity involving the vehicle‚ the driver or both. The 1968 case was Terry v. Ohio (392 U.S. 1) deemed that an officer may pat down a person for weapons only if the officer has the additional reasonable suspicion that the pat down is necessary for safety reasons. Since a vehicle similar to the vehicle that Officer Smith had stopped
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Stop and Frisk page2 Abstract This paper was written to take a look at both sides of the stop and frisk program. By examining both sides I hope to show the effectiveness of the program‚ but not to leave out the possible negative effects also. There is no doubt that this program has gain a lot of negative attention‚ the main controversial issue at hand is that the people feel that it gives the cops to much authority to stop anyone they can. This program is to believe that it is a way to
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to search. Once a stop has been made on a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity‚ if law enforcement feels that their life is in danger a frisk may be made on reasonable suspicion that the suspect could possibly be armed and dangerous. In Terry v. Ohio the Supreme Court evened the government note in crime prevention and concentrated on the peoples’ safety against invasion of privacy. The Fourth Amendment is produced on reasonable suspicion needs to be more than a feeling. It has to be built on
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discriminate directly or indirectly at a specific race. Members of minority groups are more likely to be stopped and frisked than any other race in New York City. (source?) The stop and frisk policy was implemented after the Supreme Court case of Terry vs. Ohio‚ which ruled that an officer can perform a search on a person without a warrant‚ if the officer suspects that the person may be armed or dangerous. (source?) This case paved the way to one of the most controversial police procedures in New York-stop
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Unit 2 Assignment CJ 227-01: Criminal Procedure “One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but‚ a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” – Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Imagine a perfect society‚ where the population had a standard
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Stop and Frisk Introduction Police Officers work for many hours and most of those hours are stopping people on the street to see what they carry. Stop and frisk is “One of the most controversial police procedures is the stop and frisk search. This type of limited search occurs when police confront a suspicious person in an effort to prevent a crime from taking place. The police frisk (pat down) the person for weapons and question the person‚” (Farlex‚ 2008‚ pg. 1). How stop and frisk became
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Ohio that legislation was put out to describe how stop and frisks can be done constitutionally. The case was about a Cleveland detective who approached‚ stopped‚ questioned‚ and frisked three men that he believed were acting suspicious. He found out that
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Is New York City’s Stop and Frisk law infringing upon Americans rights? In 2011‚ 685‚ 724 people were stopped and frisked by the police. This is a record high by more than 50‚000 stops in New York City‚ 87% of the stops were either black or Latino‚ raising the question of is this morally ethical due to racial profiling (NYCLU‚ 2014). Why should an individual be stopped and frisked without probable cause? Stopping and frisking without probable cause is an act of racism‚ profiling someone due
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Laura Disla English 201 Professor Langrone 04/03/12 Stop and Frisk Stop and frisk is a program that the New York Police Department uses to stop and search anyone who looks suspicious. Police can stop and frisk anyone without a warrant. This topic is causing many controversies because of the excessive numbers of arrest. A disproportionate number of people of color especially African America and Hispanics are unreasonably stopped and searched simply for looking suspicious. They are the one
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