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    has been a lot of actions that the police have been used on citizens and innocent bystander. One of these actions are called “Stop and Frisk”‚ which has been used a lot these days‚ specially in New York. “ Stop and Frisk” means to be randomly search by police or a high authority when they suspect a bystander is carrying something suspicious. At times " Stop and Frisk” can be helpful at times ‚ but not most of the time ‚ and in some cases it has been believed to be used by high authorities

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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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    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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    NYPD: StopQuestion & Frisk Policy A New Style of Policing or a Crime Fighting Tool? Racial Profiling in the Criminal Justice system. Racial Profiling has been argued to be a very ineffective style of community policing in the criminal justice system. Using the New York City Police Department‚ “StopQuestion & Frisk” Policy as a model‚ I will show that profiling has led to lower crime rates which is shown from a current and historical point of view. Using history

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    Stop and Frisk Policy

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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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    Stop And Frisk Essay

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    Stop and Frisk” “Stop and Frisk” has been a very controversial method of policing over the last few years in New York city because of its associations with racial profiling. It has been used as a tool for the government to attempt to reduce crime in a preemptive way by using reasonable suspicion to stopquestion‚ search‚ and if necessary‚ detain any citizen the officer chooses. Statistically‚ almost 90% of stop and frisk suspects in New York city were found to have nothing incriminating and were

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    Stop and Frisk for Law

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    Ethnicity and stop and frisk laws have called for the attention of the courts to determine whether it is an abuse of power and whether minorities are the majority when pertaining to stop and frisk laws. This research will focus on the effects ethnicity has on stop and frisks laws. Ethnicity and Stop and Frisk laws have become a topic of concern because it questions the constitutional right of the fourth amendment. Police Officers are said to abuse power given their authority to stop and frisk a person

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    Stop And Frisk Reflection

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    The presentation that I attended was on Thursday January 21 2016 from one until two fifteen. The event took place inside the Loosemorre auditorium in Devos. The presentation was titled‚ Stop and Frisk‚ Racial Profiling and the U.S. Constitution. Dr.Kanaboshi‚ Dr.Gerkin and Gonzalez (a grad school student) put on this presentation. The event was held at this location because it was during the week that Grand Valley did the teach in. The speakers gave their presentation on this issue‚ and I felt that

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