Stop and Frisk Rough Draft The Stop and Frisk program employed by the New York Police Department‚ gives police officers the right to initiate a stop of an individual on the street allegedly based on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. Stop and frisk has been an NYPD tool for decades‚ but in recent years it has generated an increased amount of criticism and debate due to the alarming rate in which they occur communities of color‚ who often feel under attack and harassed by the police. Minorities
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My name is _________ and I am here to bring attention to the “Stop and Frisk Laws” and how they affect our youth and damage our society. Also through this exchange of information I hope to show how these type of laws go against our constitutional rights. First let’s ask what does Stop and frisk actually mean legally? “It’s the situation in which a police officer who is suspicious of an individual detains the person and runs his hands lightly over the suspect’s outer garments to determine if the
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takes place in order to stop a crime from occurring. On the other hand‚ many find the technique to be inappropriate and just down right wrong. Several have different opinions about the stopping and frisking process. Many individuals have different views on the whole stopping and frisking technique. Dennis C. Smith‚ who is a professor of public policy at New York University and was a paid consultant for the New York Police Department in litigation involving stop and frisk‚ believes that stopping
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amendment. The Stop and Frisk program employed by the New York Police Department‚ gives police officers the right to initiate a stop of an individual on the street allegedly and do a quick search of their outer clothes for weapons based on if the officer has a reasonable suspicion that a crime has or is about to take place and the person stopped is armed or dangerous. This reasonable suspicion is not based with specific facts but from the hunches from New York Police officers. Stop and frisk has been
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Stop and frisk is very beneficial because the law enforcement officers has a reasonable suspicion to stop an individual if a crime has occurred or plan to occur. “Stop and frisk is essential to the probable cause and warrant requirements.” (Hall‚ p. 415‚ 2015). Many times law enforcement officers do not follow the stop and frisk and abuse the law by doing the opposite by following the law. It is important that law enforcement take authority when necessary instead of making citizens feel unsafe and
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The “stop and frisk” or “Terry frisk” law is one of the most controversial laws in America. The law came about via a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that the Fourth Amendment is not violated when a police officer stops a suspect on the street and frisks him or her without probable cause to arrest. This only holds if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed‚ is committing‚ or is about to commit a crime and has a reasonable belief
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and cons of the Stop and Frisk policy in New York. This paper covers a short history of Stop and Frisk. It also will address the progression of the policy throughout the years. Furthermore‚ it will relate the topic to the management‚ gender‚ and race class focusing in on how the unconscious bias plays a role in how the police choose who to stop. The paper also includes some statistics of Stop and Frisk encounters. It will conclude with the group opinion of the Stop and Frisk policy. INTRODUCTION
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Final Paper: Neoliberalism and Stop-And-Frisk The era of neoliberal justice may in fact be no better than the frontier justice and Jim Crow justice. In a post-civil rights era‚ people of all color in the United States would assume the nation and the white elites would have progressed towards more economic equality for Black and Brown people. Unfortunately that is not the case and the reality of the assumption is a myth perpetuated through the discourses of colorblindness narrated by the white elites
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The Constitutionality of the Stop and Frisk The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It also states that no warrants shall be issued without a probable cause. Modern jurisprudence has afforded police officers an incentive to respect the amendment. The Stop and Frisk law allows police officers to stop someone and do a quick search of their outer clothes for weapons if the officer has a reasonable suspicion that a crime has or is
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consider to be right from wrong. Though police officers may prevent a crime‚ in some cases the stop-and-frisk method is not always necessary. According to Beverly Rice an expert in law‚ avers‚ “While officers believe the stop and frisk law is a useful crime fighting tool‚ they also feel the law can be overused in an effort to boost statistics.” This shows that not only does the citizens know that stop-frisk-method is unnecessary but also the police officers and their colleagues know this to be true
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